Zooming into Star Cluster NGC 6520 & Dark Cloud Barnard 86 | ESO

Zooming into Star Cluster NGC 6520 & Dark Cloud Barnard 86 | ESO

This video sequence starts with a view of the spectacular Milky Way. As we zoom in towards the center we see a huge cloud of faint stars, this is the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud. On top of this cloud there is a much smaller dark feature called Barnard 86 and in the final view from the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile we see not only the gecko-shaped dark cloud but also its neighboring star cluster NGC 6520.

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

Release Date: Feb. 14, 2013

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