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Towards the Galactic Centre
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The second of three images of ESO’s GigaGalaxy Zoom project is a new and wonderful 340-million-pixel vista of the central parts of our home galaxy as seen with an amateur telescope from ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. This second image directly benefits from the quality of Paranal’s sky, one of the best on the planet, where ESO’s Very Large Telescope is located.
To create this stunning, true-colour mosaic of the Galactic Centre region, about 1200 individual images were assembled, totalling more than 200 hours of exposure time, collected over 29 nights.
The image shows the region spanning the sky from the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer) to Scorpius (the Scorpion). The very colourful Rho Ophiuchi and Antares region is a prominent feature to the right, although much darker areas, such as the Pipe and Snake nebulae also stand out. The dusty lane of our Milky Way runs obliquely through the image and is dotted with remarkable bright, reddish nebulae, such as the Lagoon and the Trifid Nebulae.
Image Credit: ESO/S. Guisard
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Is the universe a complete and closed entity ?
But entity=unit, so this might mean that there are more universes than one ...
How I envy you, dear Phil, for knowing more than I do !
*by no means a blonde*
SAM