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Stellar Nursery Blooms into View | ESO

Stellar Nursery Blooms into View | ESO

ESOcast 142 Light: The OmegaCAM imager on the European Southern Observatory’s VLT Survey Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured a glittering view of the stellar nursery called Sharpless 29. Many astronomical phenomena can be seen in the giant image, including cosmic dust and gas clouds that reflect, absorb, and re-emit the light of hot young stars within the nebula.

This short video gives you a quick tour of this remarkable picture.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Directed by: Nico Bartmann

Editing: Nico Bartmann

Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida

Written by: Rosa Jesse, Izumi Hansen and Richard Hook

Music: Music written and performed by: Stan Dart

Footage and photos: ESO, M. Kornmesser, N. Risinger, S. Guisard

Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen

Duration: 1 minute, 16 seconds

Release Date: December 13, 2017

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Panning across Star-forming Region Sharpless 29 | ESO

Panning across Star-forming Region Sharpless 29 | ESO

The OmegaCAM imager on the European Southern Observatory’s VLT Survey Telescope has captured this glittering view of the stellar nursery called Sharpless 29. Many astronomical phenomena can be seen in this giant image, including cosmic dust and gas clouds that reflect, absorb, and re-emit the light of hot young stars within the nebula.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Music: Astral Electronic - Solar Wind

Duration: 42 seconds

Release Date: December 15, 2017

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Zooming in on Star-forming Region Sharpless 29 | ESO

Zooming in on Star-forming Region Sharpless 29 | ESO

This zoom video sequence takes the viewer towards the rich central regions of the Milky Way, in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer). Many striking clouds of glowing gas are visible and the final view shows a richly detailed new image of the star-forming region Sharpless 29 from the European Southern Observatory’s VLT Survey Telescope.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/N. Risinger/S. Guisard

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: December 13, 2017

Stellar Nursery Sharpless 29 Blooms into View | ESO

Stellar Nursery Sharpless 29 Blooms into View | ESO

The OmegaCAM imager on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope has captured this glittering view of the stellar nursery called Sharpless 29. Many astronomical phenomena can be seen in this giant image, including cosmic dust and gas clouds that reflect, absorb, and re-emit the light of hot young stars within the nebula.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: December 13, 2017

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Star Formation Region NGC 6559 & Sharpless 29: Wide-field View | ESO

Star Formation Region NGC 6559 & Sharpless 29: Wide-field View | ESO

This very rich region of the Milky Way in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer) includes huge numbers of stars as well as several spectacular regions of star formation. At the center lies Sharpless 29, which includes NGC 6559. To the right lies the very bright and famous Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) and at the upper-right the Trifid Nebula (Messier 20) can be seen. This picture was created from images in the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

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

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: December 13, 2017

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Star Formation Region NGC 6559 | Steward Observatory

Star Formation Region NGC 6559 | Steward Observatory

NGC 6559 is an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars form inside an interstellar cloud. This region of sky includes glowing red clouds of mostly hydrogen gas, blue regions where starlight is being reflected from tiny particles of dust and also dark regions where the dust is thick and opaque.

Distance: about 5,000 light-years

Image Credit & Copyright: Mount Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona

Image Date: June 2009

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Panning across the Star Formation Region NGC 6559 | ESO

Panning across the Star Formation Region NGC 6559 | ESO

The Danish 1.54-meter telescope located at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars form inside an interstellar cloud. This pan video gives us a close-up view of this region of sky, which includes glowing red clouds of mostly hydrogen gas, blue regions where starlight is being reflected from tiny particles of dust and also dark regions where the dust is thick and opaque.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Music: movetwo

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: May 6, 2013

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Zooming in Star Formation Region NGC 6559 | ESO

Zooming in Star Formation Region NGC 6559 | ESO

This zoom starts with a broad view of the Milky Way. We head in towards the center, where stars and the pink regions marking star formation nurseries are concentrated. We see the huge gas cloud of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) but finally settle on the smaller nebula NGC 6559. The colorful closing image comes from the Danish 1.54-meter telescope located at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Nick Risinger/S. Guisard

Music: movetwo

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: May 6, 2013

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Star Formation Region NGC 6559 | ESO

Star Formation Region NGC 6559 | ESO

The Danish 1.54-meter telescope located at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars form inside an interstellar cloud. This region of sky includes glowing red clouds of mostly hydrogen gas, blue regions where starlight is being reflected from tiny particles of dust and also dark regions where the dust is thick and opaque.

Distance: about 5,000 light-years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/U.G. Jørgensen

Release Date: May 2, 2013

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The Gum 15 Star Formation Region: Wide-field View | ESO

The Gum 15 Star Formation Region: Wide-field View | ESO

This relatively unknown wide-field view captures the spectacular celestial landscape around the central object Gum 15. Among many other objects the star cluster NGC 2671 is visible a little to the lower left of center and at the lower right of the image some of the filaments forming part of the Vela Supernova Remnant can be seen. This view was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Distance: about 3,000 light-years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: November 3, 2014

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Scarlet and Smoke in The Gum 15 Nebula | ESO

Scarlet and Smoke in The Gum 15 Nebula | ESO

The smokey black silhouette in this image is part of a large, sparse cloud of partially ionized hydrogen—an HII region—known as Gum 15. In wide-field images this nebula appears as a striking reddish purple clump dotted with stars and slashed by opaque, weaving dust lanes. This image homes in on one of these dust lanes, showing the central region of the nebula.

These dark chunks of sky have seemingly few stars because lanes of dusty material are obscuring the bright, glowing regions of gas beyond. The occasional stars that do show up in these patches are actually between us and Gum 15, but create the illusion that we are peering through a window out onto the more distant sky.

Gum 15 is shaped by the aggressive winds flowing from the stars within and around it. The cloud is located near to several large associations of stars including the star cluster ESO 313-13. The brightest member of this cluster, named HD 74804, is thought to have ionized Gum 15’s hydrogen cloud. This ionized hydrogen content is the cause of the red hue permeating the frame.

This image was taken as part of the ESO Cosmic Gems program using the FORS instrument on the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. This project has actually produced multiple images of this target—back in July 2014, ESO released a stunning wide-field image of Gum 15 with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory that showed the nebula’s sculpted clouds, murky dust, and brightly shining stars in extraordinary detail.

Notes:

The ESO Cosmic Gems program is an initiative to produce images of interesting, intriguing or visually attractive objects using ESO telescopes, for the purposes of education and public outreach. The program makes use of telescope time that cannot be used for science observations.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: November 3, 2014

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SpaceX Starlink Mission: Aug. 9, 2022 | NASA Kennedy

SpaceX Starlink Mission: Aug. 9, 2022 | NASA Kennedy

On Tuesday, August 9, 2022, at 10:14 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched 52 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

This was the third flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched SES-22 and now two Starlink missions.

Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)

Image Date: August 9, 2022

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Panning across the Star Formation Region Gum 15 | ESO

Panning across the Star Formation Region Gum 15 | ESO

This richly detailed pan video from the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the star formation region Gum 15. This little-known object is located in the constellation of Vela (The Sails), some 3,000 light-years from Earth. The glowing cloud is a stunning example of an HII region.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Music: movetwo

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: July 14, 2014

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Zooming in on Gum 15 | ESO

Zooming in on Gum 15 | ESO

This zoom sequence shows the location of the star formation region Gum 15 in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sails). This little known object is located in a spectacular part of the Milky Way. The final detailed view comes from the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.

Distance: about 3,000 light-years

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

Music: movetwo

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Duration: 50 seconds

Release Date: July 25, 2014

The Gum 15 Star Formation Region | ESO

The Gum 15 Star Formation Region | ESO

This richly detailed new view from the MPG/European Southern Observatory 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the star formation region Gum 15. This little-known object is located in the constellation of Vela (The Sails), some 3,000 light-years from Earth. The glowing cloud is a stunning example of an HII region.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: July 2, 2014

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The Countdown to Our Artemis I Moon Mission | This Week @NASA

The Countdown to Our Artemis I Moon Mission | This Week @NASA

Week of August 12, 2022: The countdown to our Artemis I Moon mission, a Moon-observing small satellite hitching a ride on Artemis I, and some other tiny satellites that could help us better prepare for space weather . . . a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 4 minutes, 11 seconds

Release Date: August 13, 2022

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