Vision of a Stellar Ending Wall Art Size:COSMIC (40 x 40) with the help of Brigitte

with the help of Brigitte Bailleul — winner of the Tweet Your Way to the VLT

but the excellent optical quality of the VLT and FORS allows us to see an incredible wealth of details

In wide-field images this nebula appears as a striking reddish purple clump dotted with stars and slashed by opaque

and a comparison between the two is available here)

and wispy veils of dust

Vision of a Stellar Ending Wall Art Size:COSMIC (40 x 40) with the help of BrigitteMore than 11,000 years ago, a massive, supergiant star came to the end of its life. The star's core collapsed to form an incredibly dense ball of neutrons, and its exterior was blasted away in an immense release of energy astronomers call a supernova. The light from this supernova first reached Earth from the direction of the constellation Cassiopeia around 1667 A. D. If anyone alive at the time saw it, they left no records. It is likely that large