VISTA stares deeply into the blue lagoon
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - 08:31
in Astronomy & Space
A new infrared image of the Lagoon Nebula was captured as part of a five-year study of the Milky Way using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. This is a small piece of a much larger image of the region surrounding the nebula, which is, in turn, only one part of a huge survey.