VFTS 102: The Fastest Rotating Massive Star Wall Art Size:24 x 24 diffuse clouds of ionized gas

diffuse clouds of ionized gas that emit their own light

This image actually shows part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)

This wide-field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42)

The 870-micron submillimetre-wavelength data were taken with the LABOCA camera on the 12-m Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope

In images of reflection nebulae taken with visible light

VFTS 102: The Fastest Rotating Massive Star Wall Art Size:24 x 24 diffuse clouds of ionized gasThis view shows part of the stellar nursery called the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighbour of the Milky Way. At the centre lies the brilliant star VFTS 102 This view includes both visible light and infrared images from the Wide Field Imager at the MPG ESO 2. 2 metre telescope at La Silla and the 4. 1 metre infrared VISTA telescope at Paranal. VFTS 102 is the most rapidly rotating star ever found. Credit: ESO M. R. Cioni