The Lobster Nebula seen with ESO’s VISTA telescope
This image from ESO’s VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of vast, glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar nursery known as NGC 6357 in a new light. It was taken as part of the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey, which is currently scanning the Milky Way in a bid to map our galaxy’s structure and explain how it formed.
Credit:ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti. Acknowledgement: Ignacio Toledo
About the Image
| Id: | eso1309a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | Dec. 4, 2024, 10:05 a.m. |
| Size: | 16000 x 16000 px |
About the Object
| Name: | NGC 6357 |
| Distance: | 8000 light years |
| Constellation: | Scorpius |
| Category: | Nebulae |
Image Formats
Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 17 25 4.43 |
| Position (Dec): | -34° 18' 40.00" |
| Field of view: | 90.92 x 90.92 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 56.0° left of vertical |
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Colors & filters
| Band | Wave-length | Tele-scope |
|---|---|---|
| Infrared J | 1.25 μm | Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy VIRCAM |
| Infrared H | 1.65 μm | Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy VIRCAM |
| Infrared Ks | 2.15 μm | Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy VIRCAM |