Spiral galaxy NGC 253 PopWallet+ t-shirt and resides about 2

and resides about 2

was taken in infrared light using the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope

this nebula is easily recognizable as a dramatic silhouette in the shape of a horse's head

The cosmic dust grains are so cold that observations at submillimetre wavelengths

like smoke around a fire

Spiral galaxy NGC 253 PopWallet+ t-shirt and resides about 2Measuring 70 000 light years across and laying 13 million light years away, the nearly edge on spiral galaxy NGC 253 is revealed here in an image from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG ESO 2. 2 metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory. The image is based on data obtained through four different filters (R, V, H alpha and OIII). North is up and East to the left. The field of view is 30 arcminutes. Credit: ESO