The RCW 94/95 nebulae in visible light
eso_eso2518b October 31st, 2025
Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team
This image shows a cloud of gas and dust, shaped like a cosmic bat. The image was obtained in visible light with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The intense red glow comes from hydrogen atoms ionised by the intense radiation of young stars within the cloud. The most prominent clouds here are RCW 94, which represents the right wing of the bat, and RCW 95, which forms the body, while the other parts of the bat have no official designation.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2518b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- eso2518b
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2 B.4.2.1.1
- Subject Name
- RCW 94, RCW 95
- Credits
- ESO/VPHAS+ team
- Release Date
- 2025-10-31T09:00:00
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- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2518b/
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- Observation
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- Equinox
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- 21870.0, 12617.0
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- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- https://www.eso.org
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- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso2518b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2518b.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2025-10-21T15:33:02+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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