The Lobster Nebula: NGC 6357 (infrared view) | ESO VISTA Telescope
This image from the European Southern Observatory’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) telescope captures a celestial landscape of vast, glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view revealed the stellar nursery known as NGC 6357 in a new light. It was taken as part of the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey. It scanned the Milky Way in a bid to map our galaxy’s structure and explain how it formed.
Distance: ~8,000 light years
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https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vista/
Credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti Acknowledgement: Ignacio Toledo
Image Date: Feb. 20, 2013
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