The Rosette Nebula | Victor Blanco Telescope

The Rosette Nebula | Victor Blanco Telescope

Cradled within the fiery petals of the Rosette Nebula is NGC 2244—the young star cluster it nurtured. The cluster’s stars light up the nebula in vibrant hues of red, gold, and purple, and opaque towers of dust rise from the billowing clouds around its excavated core. This image, captured by 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program of the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab, was released in celebration of NOIRLab’s fifth anniversary.

Distance: 5,000 light years

Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA

Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)

Release Date: Oct. 1, 2024

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