Wide-field View: Star Cluster NGC 6520 & Dark Cloud Barnard 86 | ESO

Wide-field View: Star Cluster NGC 6520 & Dark Cloud Barnard 86 | ESO

This wide-field view shows the very rich star fields of the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud and the cluster NGC 6520 and the neighboring dark cloud Barnard 86. It was created from images from the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Distance: 6,000 light years

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

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: Feb. 13, 2013

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