NGC 6523 | Lagoon Nebula Wall Art including Frame canvas dynamic cloud of gas (a

dynamic cloud of gas (a nebula)

Text: European Space Agency (ESA)

Each frame records 8184 x 8196 = 67

above a southern latitude spanning from about 40 to 74 degrees

NGC 6523 | Lagoon Nebula Wall Art including Frame canvas dynamic cloud of gas (aThe 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)