The Lobster Nebula seen with ESO’s VISTA telescope
eso_eso1309a February 20th, 2013
Credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti. Acknowledgement: Ignacio Toledo
This image from ESO’s VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of vast, glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar nursery known as NGC 6357 in a new light. It was taken as part of the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey, which is currently scanning the Milky Way in a bid to map our galaxy’s structure and explain how it formed.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1309a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1309a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- NGC 6357
- Credits
- ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti. Acknowledgement: Ignacio Toledo
- Release Date
- 2013-02-20T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1309a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
- Instrument
- VIRCAM, VIRCAM, VIRCAM
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Ks, H, J
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 261.268475427, -34.3111111481
- Reference Dimension
- 16000.0, 16000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 8000.0, 8000.0
- Scale
- -9.47096377919e-05, 9.47096377919e-05
- Rotation
- 55.958999202686606
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso1309a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1309a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2013-01-18T12:38:39+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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