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Star Cluster Messier 18: Wide-field View | ESO

Star Cluster Messier 18: Wide-field View | ESO

The small smattering of bright stars at the center of this wide-field view is Messier 18, an open star cluster containing stars that formed together from the same massive cloud of gas and dust. This picture, which also shows part of the bright Omega Nebula (Messier 17) at the top, was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Digitized Sky Survey 2

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: August 10, 2016


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