Zooming in on the Lupus 3 Star-forming Region | ESO
This zoom sequence starts with a view of the central parts of the Milky Way. We close in on a region in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). The final view is a combined image from data from both the VLT Survey Telescope and the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. It shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already burst out of their dusty stellar nursery. This cloud is known as Lupus 3 and it lies about 600 light-years from Earth. It is likely that the Sun formed in a similar star formation region more than four billion years ago.
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/R. Colombari/Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Risinger
Duration: 50 seconds
Release Date: January 31, 2018
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