Evropská jižní observatoř

Kategorie: Hvězdy, Zpět na celou fotogalerii.

Popis (v anglickém jazyce):

A series of images were obtained with WFI of areas in the Milky Way band, including some in which interstellar nebulae of gas and dust are seen. Each frame records 8184 x 8196, or over 67 million, pixels in a sky field of 32 x 32 arcmin 2.

The present photo shows the RCW 108 complex of bright and dark nebulae in the southern association Ara OB1 , a star-forming region in the constellation Ara (The Altar), deep in the southern sky.

The resolution in this image has been degraded by reducing the number of pixels in one direction from about 8000 to 3000 in the "High-Resolution version", in order to make the image transportable over the web without incurring completely unacceptable transfer times. Still it is very large, even in the highly compressed jpeg-format, reflecting the great amount of details visible.

Odkaz na další informace na www.eso.org (stránka v AJ)