Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory captured a breathtaking image of the ghost of a star, the remnants of a supernova.
When stars reach the end of their lives, they often explode, leaving behind massive shock waves that move through the surrounding gas and compress it into complex, and often astounding cosmic structures. A ghost of a star, so to speak. That’s what we see on display with this latest image captured by the European Southern Observatory.
This ghost of a star is beautiful in the 554-million-pixel image that the ESO captured using its VLT Survey Telescope. In the image, we get a very detailed look at the remnants of the Vela supernova, which is named after the constellation Vela . The image is so large that the ESO says you could fit nine moons into the entire image that it shared, showcasing just how large the area is.The telescope that captured the image is hosted at the ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.
The image here was only possible by combining multiple observations of the supernova remnant that the VLT Survey Telescope captured using its OmegaCAM instrument. Surveys of the night sky can reveal a lot about our universe. While James Webb is busy digging into theThis article talks about:
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