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Corey S Powell
Corey S Powell
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A beautiful panorama of cosmic life & death:

These images of the Sculptor Galaxy combine 100 exposures in thousands of colors, 300 gigs of data in total. They show 500 planetary nebulae (the demise of other Suns) + a central "chimney" caused by a burst of newly formed stars.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2510/ #space #science #nature #astronomy

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Astronomers capture most detailed thousand-colour image of a galaxy

Astronomers have created a galactic masterpiece: an ultra-detailed image that reveals previously unseen features in the Sculptor Galaxy. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), they observed this nearby galaxy in thousands of colours simultaneously. By capturing vast amounts of data at every single location, they created a galaxy-wide snapshot of the lives of stars within Sculptor.
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