NGC 6523 | Lagoon Nebula Wall Art including Frame canvas This image of the region

This image of the region of sky around the Pencil Nebula shows a spectacular celestial landscape featuring the blue filaments of the Vela supernova remnant

Each frame records 8184 x 8196 = 67

dynamic cloud of gas (a nebula)

which will grow up to 10 times the mass of our Sun

Text: European Space Agency (ESA)

NGC 6523 | Lagoon Nebula Wall Art including Frame canvas This image of the regionThe 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)