eso_eso0930a August 26th, 2009
Credit: ESO
The massive star factory known as the Trifid Nebula was captured in all its glory with the Wide-Field Imager camera attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in northern Chile. So named for the dark dust bands that trisect its glowing heart, the Trifid Nebula is a rare combination of three nebulae types that reveal the fury of freshly formed stars and point to more star birth in the future. The field of view of the image is approximately 13 x 17 arcminutes. #L
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0930a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
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