Firebird Nebula & NGC 6193 Star Cluster: Infrared view | ESO
This image is filled with densely packed stars, most of them only tiny light blue or orange dots. There are so many stars that the dark sky is almost indiscernible. Towards the center-right there is a dark region with fewer stars and, inside it, a bright orange nebula.
This is an infrared image of NGC 6188, also known as the Firebird Nebula, located about 4,100 light-years away in the constellation Ara. This gas cloud harbors a cluster of young stars called NGC 6193. The image was captured by ESO’s VISTA―the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy―with its infrared camera VIRCAM. The image is part of a giant infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects. The data for this map were gathered as part of the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey and its companion project, the VVV eXtended survey (VVVX).
Credit: ESO/VVVX survey
Release Date: Sept. 26, 2024
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