Gems of The Earth's Southern Sky

Gems of The Earth's Southern Sky

Part of the southern Milky Way, around the constellations of Centaurus, Crux and Carina. In the center of the image, the majestic Southern Cross (Crux) constellation, symbol of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), takes the central stage with dark Coalsack Nebula close by. On the left, brightest stars of Centaurus can be seen with their typical colors. The brighter one is Alpha Centauri, one of the closest stars to our Sun. Right part of the view belngs to prominent Carina Nebula, one of the most significant of its type in the whole sky. To achieve so many details, the photographer used a Vixen Polarie mount.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/P. Horálek

Release Date: September 17, 2019

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The Coalsack Nebula: Wide-field View | ESO

The Coalsack Nebula: Wide-field View | ESO

This rich landscape is part of the small constellation of Crux (The Southern Cross). The very bright star is Alpha Crucis, also known as Acrux, one of the four stars that make up the famous cross shape. Most of the upper left part of this image is filled with dark dusty clouds that form part of the huge dark nebula called the Coalsack.

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

Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin

Release Date: October 14, 2015

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A Close Look at Part of The Coalsack Nebula | ESO

A Close Look at Part of The Coalsack Nebula | ESO

This video takes a close-up look at a new image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope. It shows part of the huge cloud of dust and gas known as the Coalsack Nebula, close to the Southern Cross in the southern Milky Way. The dust in this nebula absorbs and scatters the light from background stars, making many of them appear fainter and redder.

Distance: 600 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Music: Johan Monell

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: October 14, 2015

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United States Space Force Atlas V Launch: SBIRS GEO 6 | ULA

United States Space Force Atlas V Launch: SBIRS GEO 6 | ULA

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at 6:29 a.m. EDT on Aug. 4, 2022 for the United States Space Force’s Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO 6) mission. 

Credit: United Launch Alliance (ULA)

Image Date: August 4, 2022

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Atlas V US Space Force SBIRS GEO 6 Launch Highlights | ULA

Atlas V US Space Force SBIRS GEO 6 Launch Highlights | ULA

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit-6 (SBIRS GEO 6) mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command lifted off on Aug. 4 at 6:29 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Credit: United Launch Alliance (ULA)

Release Date: August 8, 2022

Duration: 1 minute, 42 seconds

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Zooming in on the Dark and Dusty Coalsack Nebula

Zooming in on the Dark and Dusty Coalsack Nebula

This zoom video starts with a broad view of the Milky Way. We then zoom in towards the famous small constellation of Crux, the Southern Cross, and to its left, the huge dark area called the Coalsack. The final sequence takes a very close look at some of the darkest parts of this cloud and also reveals many faint stars whose light has been reddened by scattering from the dust.

Distance: 600 light years

Credit: ESO, N. Risinger, Digitized Sky Survey 2

Music: Johan Monell

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: October 14, 2015

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Part of The Coalsack Nebula | ESO

Part of The Coalsack Nebula | ESO

This image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope shows part of the huge cloud of dust and gas known as the Coalsack Nebula, designated as TGU H1867. The dust in this nebula absorbs and scatters the light from background stars.

Distance: 600 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: October 14, 2015

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The Sky Around the Star Gliese 667C | ESO

The Sky Around the Star Gliese 667C | ESO

This picture shows the sky around multiple star Gliese 667. The bright star at the center is Gliese 667 A and B, the two main components of the system, which cannot be separated in this image. Gliese 667C, the third component, is visible as a bright star, very close and just under A and B, still in the glare of these brighter stars. The very subtle wobbles of Gliese 667C, measured with high precision spectrographs including HARPS, revealed it is surrounded by a full planetary system, with up to seven planets.

Note that this image was assembled from two photographic plates taken years apart through different colored filters. During that time, the motion of the nearby stars Gliese 667AB and C was sufficient for them to appear doubled in this picture, with one red and one blue image of each star.

This picture also shows two regions of star formation, much further from Earth than Gliese 667. At the upper-left NGC 6357 is visible and towards the bottom of the picture NGC 6334 (The Cat’s Paw Nebula).

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

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: June 25, 2013

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Around The Cat's Paw Nebula | ESO

Around The Cat's Paw Nebula | ESO

Wide view centered on the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334).

Distance: 5,500 light years

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

Release Date: January 20, 2010

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The Cat's Paw Nebula: MIPS & IRAC View | NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

The Cat's Paw Nebula: MIPS & IRAC View | NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

Before the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was the largest infrared telescope in space. The Cat's Paw Nebula, imaged here by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lies inside the Milky Way Galaxy and is located in the constellation Scorpius. Its distance from Earth is estimated to be between 1.3 kiloparsecs (about 4,200 light years) to 1.7 kiloparsecs (about 5,500 light years).

The bright, cloudlike band running left to right across the image shows the presence of gas and dust that can collapse to form new stars. The black filaments running through the nebula are particularly dense regions of gas and dust. The entire star-forming region is thought to be between 24 and 27 parsecs (80-90 light years) across.The stars that form inside the nebula heat up the pressurized gas surrounding them, such that the gas may expand and form "bubbles," which appear red in this image. Asymmetric bubbles may "burst," creating U-shaped features.

The green areas show regions where radiation from hot stars collided with large molecules and small dust grains called polycyclic aromatic hydocarbons (PAHs), causing them to fluoresce.

This image was compiled using data from two Spitzer instruments, the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS). The colors correspond with wavelengths of 3.6 microns (blue), 4.5 microns (cyan), 8 microns (green) and 24 microns (red).

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Release Date: October 23rd, 2018

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The Cat’s Paw Nebula: Infrared & Submillimeter Views | ESO VISTA

The Cat’s Paw Nebula: Infrared & Submillimeter Views | ESO VISTA

This video compares the near-infrared and submillimeter views of the star formation region NGC 6334, also known as the Cat's Paw Nebula. 

Credit: ArTeMiS team/Ph. André, M. Hennemann, V. Revéret et al./ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

Duration: 36 seconds

Release Date: October 1, 2013

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The Cat’s Paw Nebula: Infrared View | ESO VISTA

The Cat’s Paw Nebula: Infrared View | ESO VISTA

Infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) taken by VISTA. NGC 6334 is a vast region of star formation about 5,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius. The whole gas cloud is about 50 light-years across. NGC 6334 is one of the most active nurseries of young massive stars in our galaxy, some nearly ten times the mass of our Sun and most born in the last few million years. The images were taken through Y, J and Ks filters (shown as blue, green and red respectively) and the exposure time was five minutes per filter. The field of view is about one degree across.

Distance: 5,500 light years

Credit: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA

Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

Release Date: April 21, 2010

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Zooming in on ArTeMiS's View of The Cat's Paw Nebula

Zooming in on ArTeMiS's View of The Cat's Paw Nebula

In this zoom sequence, we start with a spectacular wide-field view of the Milky Way Galaxy, centered on the constellations of Scorpius and Sagittarius.

Credit: ArTeMiS team/Ph. André, M. Hennemann, V. Revéret et al./Digitized Sky Survey 2/J. Emerson/VISTA/S. Guisard/S.Brunier

Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit. Music: movetwo

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: October 1, 2013

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The Star-forming Cat’s Paw Nebula | ESO's ArTeMiS

The Star-forming Cat’s Paw Nebula | ESO's ArTeMiS

This image of the star formation region NGC 6334 is one of the first scientific images from the ArTeMiS instrument on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX). The picture shows the glow detected at a wavelength of 0.35 millimeters coming from dense clouds of interstellar dust grains. The new observations from ArTeMiS show up in orange and have been superimposed on a view of the same region taken in near-infrared light by ESO’s VISTA telescope at Paranal.

Credit:ArTeMiS team/Ph. André, M. Hennemann, V. Revéret et al./ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

Release Date: September 25, 2013

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The Cat's Paw Remastered | European Southern Observatory

The Cat's Paw Remastered | European Southern Observatory

The Cat’s Paw Nebula is revisited in a combination of exposures from the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope and expert amateur astronomers Robert Gendler and Ryan M. Hannahoe. The distinctive shape of the nebula is revealed in reddish puffy clouds of glowing gas against a dark sky dotted with stars.

The image was made by combining existing observations from the 2.2-meter MPG/ESO telescope of the La Silla Observatory in Chile with 60 hours of exposures on a 0.4-meter telescope taken by Gendler and Hannahoe.

The resolution of the existing 2.2-meter MPG/ESO telescope observations was combined (by using their “luminance” or brightness) with the color information from Gendler and Hannahoe’s observations to produce a beautiful combination of data from amateur and professional telescopes. For example, the additional color information brings out the faint blue nebulosity in the central region, which is not seen in the original European Southern Observatory (ESO) image, while the ESO data contribute their finer detail. The result is an image that is much more than the sum of its parts.

The well-named Cat’s Paw Nebula (also known as NGC 6334) lies in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). Although it appears close to the center of the Milky Way on the sky, it is relatively near to Earth, at a distance of about 5,500 light-years. It is about 50 light-years across and is one of the most active star formation regions in our galaxy, containing massive, young brilliant blue stars, which have formed in the last few million years. It is host to possibly tens of thousands of stars in total, some of them visible and others still hidden in the clouds of gas and dust.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/R. Gendler & R.M. Hannahoe

Release Date: July 9, 2012

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Panning across The Cat’s Paw and Lobster Nebulae | ESO

Panning across The Cat’s Paw and Lobster Nebulae | ESO

This video sequence takes a close look at a spectacular image from the VLT Survey Telescope. It shows the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) and the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357). These are regions of active star formation where the hot young stars are causing the surrounding hydrogen gas to glow red. The very rich field of view also includes dark clouds of dust.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/N. Bartmann

Music Credit: Johan B. Monell

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: February 1, 2017

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