CosmoView Episode 3: Small but Mighty
Barnard’s Galaxy, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, is revealed in this stunning image from the Victor. M. Blanco 4-m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a program of NSF’s NOIRLab.
Credit:CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Acknowledgments: P. Massey (Lowell Obs.), G. Jacoby, K. Olsen, C. Smith (NSF’s NOIRLab/AURA/NSF) & T.A. Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF). Image processing: Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin CTIO timelapse: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. Munizaga Other Images: ESA/Hubble Music: zero-project – Through the Looking Glass
About the Video
Id: | noirlab2010a |
Release date: | April 16, 2020, 3 a.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2010 |
Duration: | 01 m 13 s |
Frame rate: | 29.97 |
About the Object
Category: | Galaxies |