Zooming in on The Lobster Nebula: NGC 6357 (infrared view) | ESO
This zoom video sequence starts with a broad view of the Milky Way. We close in on one of the regions of active star formation in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion) and a curious landscape of vast numbers of stars, glowing gas and dust is revealed. The final view shows an infrared view of NGC 6357 from the the European Southern Observatory’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) telescope.
Distance: ~8,000 light years
Learn more about VISTA:
https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/surveytelescopes/vista/
Credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti/Digitized Sky Survey 2/Nick Risinger
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: Feb. 20, 2013
#NASA #ESO #Astronomy #Space #Science #Nebulae #Nebula #NGC6357 #LobsterNebula #Scorpius #Constellation #MilkyWayGalaxy #Cosmos #Universe #InfraredTelescope #VISTA #InfraredLight #ParanalObservatory #CerroParanal #AtacamaDesert #Chile #Europe #STEM #Education #HD #Video
No comments:
Post a Comment