Star V960 Mon in Monoceros: Wide-field View | ESO

Star V960 Mon in Monoceros: Wide-field View | ESO

This image shows the sky around the location of the possible planet-forming star V960 Mon. The picture was created from images in the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Distance: ~5,000 light-years

This image presents a dark area of the night sky, entirely speckled with glowing stars. White, blue and red tiny stars brighten the black background. Over this starry mantle, some bigger isolated red stars dominate the sky. The most spectacular ones are three aligned in a row together with a blue bright star almost at the center of the picture.

The Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) is a digitized version of several photographic astronomical surveys of the night sky, produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) between 1983 and 2006.

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

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: July 25, 2023

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