Zoom-in to Bernes 149 and Lupus 3
The massive, star-forming interstellar cloud Lupus 3 is captured with the 570-megapixel US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The dazzling central region of this sprawling cloud reveals a pair of infant stars bursting from their natal cocoons of dust and gas to illuminate the reflection nebula known as Bernes 149. These contrasting regions make this object a prime target of research on star formation.
Credit:CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/ T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab)
Image Processing: D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab)
Music: Zero-project - Through the Looking Glass (zero-project.gr)
About the Video
Id: | noirlab2313b |
Release date: | May 18, 2023, 8:39 a.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2313 |
Duration: | 59 s |
Frame rate: | 29.97 |