NGC 6523 | Lagoon Nebula Wall Art Size:COSMIC (48 X 32) There is much to learn

There is much to learn about the universe

The original resolution of about 1 arcsec corresponds to roughly 62 light-years at the distance of NGC 4945 (13 million light-years)

which is mostly light from stars

This picture was taken with the MPG/ESO 2

Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

NGC 6523 | Lagoon Nebula Wall Art Size:COSMIC (48 X 32) There is much to learnThe third image of ESOs GigaGalaxy Zoom project is an amazing vista of the Lagoon Nebula taken with the 67 million pixel Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG ESO 2. 2 metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The image covers more than one and a half square degree an area eight times larger than that of the Full Moon with a total of about 370 million pixels. It is based on images acquired using three different broadband filters (B, V, R)