eso_eso0936a September 28th, 2009
Credit: ESO
The third image of ESO’s GigaGalaxy Zoom project is an amazing vista of the Lagoon Nebula taken with the 67-million-pixel Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The image covers more than one and a half square degree — an area eight times larger than that of the Full Moon — with a total of about 370 million pixels. It is based on images acquired using three different broadband filters (B, V, R) and one narrow-band filter (H-alpha). #L
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0936a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
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