eso_eso1239c October 10th, 2012
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
This wide-field image shows the patch of sky around the red giant variable star R Sculptoris. In this part of the sky far from the Milky Way, there are relatively few stars but many faint and distant galaxies can be seen. This view was created from photographs forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The spikes and orange circles around the star in this picture are artifacts of the telescope and photographic process and are not real.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1239c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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