CosmoView Episode 27: An Astronomer’s Menagerie
An image of the dwarf galaxy Sextans B, taken with the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, contains a menagerie of astronomical objects, from bright stars in the foreground to distant galaxies hiding in the background. The galaxy itself contains both the cradles and the graves of stars, hosting star-forming regions as well as stellar death shrouds.
Credit:Images and videos: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, E. Slawik, P. Marenfeld
Data obtained and processed by: P. Massey (Lowell Obs.), G. Jacoby, K. Olsen, & C. Smith (AURA/NSF)
Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)
Music: Stellardrone - Airglow
About the Video
| Id: | noirlab2115a |
| Release date: | April 28, 2021, 2 p.m. |
| Related releases: | noirlab2115 |
| Duration: | 01 m 12 s |
| Frame rate: | 29.97 |
