Spectacular Stellar Nursery IC 2944 Wall Art Size:Medium (16 x 16) NGC 1398’s graceful spiral arms

NGC 1398’s graceful spiral arms stem from a straight bar

A series of short exposures through a near-infrared filtre was obtained of the waning Moon at sunrise on January 12 (at about 10 hrs UT)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

three light-years high

This image was created from images taken through Z

Spectacular Stellar Nursery IC 2944 Wall Art Size:Medium (16 x 16) NGC 1398’s graceful spiral armsThis intriguing new view of a spectacular stellar nursery IC 2944 is being released to celebrate a milestone: 15 years of ESOs Very Large Telescope. This image also shows a group of thick clouds of dust known as the Thackeray globules silhouetted against the pale pink glowing gas of the nebula. These globules are under fierce bombardment from the ultraviolet radiation from nearby hot young stars. They are both being eroded away and also fragmenting,