Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory have just revealed the first images from their new telescope called VISTA: the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy. If ever there was an appropriate name for a ’scope, that’s it.
Why?
Here’s why:
Oh baby. Yeah, click it to embiggen.
This image is of the Flame Nebula, a star forming gas cloud in Orion. The image itself covers about half a square degree on the sky (twice theSource: Bad Astronomy Blog RSS Feed
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