Wide-field view of the Fornax Galaxy Cluster Wall Art space It is an emission nebula

It is an emission nebula

This image was taken as part of the ESO Cosmic Gems programme [1] using the FORS instrument on the Very Large Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile

Holland Ford (JHU)

At the time the image was taken

based on images obtained with the Wide-Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2

Wide-field view of the Fornax Galaxy Cluster Wall Art space It is an emission nebulaThe Fornax Galaxy Cluster is one of the closest such groupings beyond our own Local Group of galaxies. This visible light wide field image of the cluster was created from photographs taken through red and blue filters and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The field of view is approximately three degrees across. Credit: ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin