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Dark Wolf Nebula
The Dark Wolf Nebula
Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 light-years from Earth, the cold clouds of cosmic dust create the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette...
NGC 1386
The NGC 1386 galaxy as seen by ALMA
This image shows the central regions of the spiral galaxy NGC 1386 observed by the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA), operated by ESO and its international partners. It shows multiple clouds of gas ready to form new stars in a galaxy otherwise dominated by old stars. Links ...
NGC 1386
A galactic rejuvenation
Something odd is happening in NGC 1386, a spiral galaxy located 53 million light years away in the constellation Eridanus. This Picture of the Week combines data from the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, and the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre...
NGC 1386
The NGC 1386 galaxy as seen by the VLT Survey Telescope
This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 1386 observed by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. While stars in this galaxy are mostly old, the blue ring at the centre is ripe with stellar clusters full of young stars. Links Research paper More details...
NGC 1386
The NGC 1386 galaxy as seen by the VLT Survey Telescope and ALMA
This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 1386 observed by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, and the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA), operated by ESO and its international partners. The VST image displays the entire galaxy in visible...
Milky Way
Mosaic of Euclid observations in the Southern Sky
This mosaic made by ESA’s Euclid space telescopes contains 260 observations collected between 25 March and 8 April 2024. This is 1% of the wide survey that Euclid will capture during six years.
Abell 3381
Euclid spots interacting galaxies
This image shows an area of the mosaic released by ESA’s Euclid space telescope on 15 October 2024. On the left of the image, Euclid captured two galaxies (called ESO 364-G035 and G036) that are interacting with each other, 420 million light-years from us. On the right of the image, galaxy...
Abell 3381
Euclid captures core of Abell 3381 galaxy cluster
This image shows an area of the mosaic released by ESA’s Euclid space telescope on 15 October 2024. In this image, the core of galaxy cluster Abell 3381 is visible, 678 million light-years away from us. The image shows many different galaxies of various shapes and sizes, from massive elliptical...
ESO 364-G036
Euclid beholds a distant swirling spiral galaxy
This image shows an area of the mosaic released by ESA’s Euclid space telescope on 15 October 2024. In this image, a single spiral galaxy (called ESO 364-G036) is visible in great detail, 420 million light-years from us. This image shows 0.0003% of the initial image of 208 gigapixels, that is...
Milky Way
Euclid’s extragalactic view in Southern Sky patch
This image displays an area of the mosaic released by ESA’s Euclid space telescope on 15 October 2024. This patch of the Southern Sky shows numerous stars in our own Milky Way, and many galaxies beyond. Thanks to its visible and infrared cameras, Euclid captures the stars in their various...
Abell 3381
Euclid sees spiral galaxy NGC 2188 and galaxy cluster Abell 3381
This image shows an area of the mosaic released by ESA’s Euclid space telescope on 15 October 2024. In the middle left, spiral galaxy NGC 2188 is visible edge-on at a distance of 25 million light-years. In the top right corner, galaxy cluster Abell 3381 is now clearly noticeable, 678 million...
REBELS-25
Infrared image of stars and galaxies near the REBELS-25 galaxy
This image shows a field of stars and galaxies taken with VISTA’s near-infrared camera. Among them is REBELS-25, the most distant rotating disc galaxy ever discovered. VISTA, ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, is located in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
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Haro 6-5B
Haro 6-5B: A Disk of Dust Around a Star
Haro 6-5B is a nearly edge-on disk surrounded by a complex mixture of wispy clouds of dust and gas. In this WFPC2 image, the central star is partially hidden by the disk, but can be pinpointed by the stubby jet (shown in green), which it emits. The dark disk extends 32 billion miles across at a...
