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Dazzling New Views of a Familiar Cluster
A grand new view of Messier 7 taken using the 2.2 metre telescope’s Wide Field Imager. Credit: ESO/La Silla Observatory
Wow. It’s always amazing to get new views of familiar sky targets. And you always know that a “feast for the eyes” is in store when astronomers turn a world-class instrument towards a familiar celestial object.
Such an image was released this morning from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Astronomers turned ESO’s 2.2-metre telescope towards Messier 7 in the constellation Scorpius recently, and gave us the star-studded view above.(…)
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Post tags: ESO, messier 6, messier 7, Open Cluster, Scorpius, stellar evolution
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