Friday, December 11, 2009

Incredible VISTA of the cosmos

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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