eso_eso1546c November 25th, 2015
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
This wide-field view shows the sky around the very brilliant red hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris, one of the largest stars known in the Milky Way. The star itself appears at the centre of the picture, which also includes clouds of glowing red hydrogen gas, dust clouds and the bright star cluster around the bright star Tau Canis Majoris towards the upper right. This picture was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1546c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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