eso_eso1628c August 10th, 2016
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
The small smattering of bright stars at the centre of this wide-field view is Messier 18, an open star cluster containing stars that formed together from the same massive cloud of gas and dust. This picture, which also shows part of the bright Omega Nebula (Messier 17) at the top, was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1628c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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