H II Region | Sharpless 29 | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Color:Navy but the excellent optical quality

but the excellent optical quality of the VLT and FORS allows us to see an incredible wealth of details

48 arcsec/pixel

they have cast off layers of gas periodically over the past couple thousand years

This image shows the disc around the young AB Aurigae star

The image covers more than one and a half square degree — an area eight times larger than that of the Full Moon — with a total of about 370 million pixels

H II Region | Sharpless 29 | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Color:Navy but the excellent optical qualityThe OmegaCAM imager on ESOs VLT Survey Telescope has captured this glittering view of the stellar nursery called Sharpless 29. Many astronomical phenomena can be seen in this giant image, including cosmic dust and gas clouds that reflect, absorb, and re emit the light of hot young stars within the nebula. Credit: ESO