EYE ON THE SKY
VICTORM BLANCO 4-METRE TELESCOPE, 18 MAY 2023
There'S A lot to unpack in this stunning image, which was captured recently by the Dark Energy Camera at NOIRLab's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, but the stars of the show – literally – are the two bright white dots left of centre.
These areyou see around them. It's also enough for stars and nebula alike to shine out brightly in the middle of the apparently featureless dark nebula Lupus 3. This region, 600 lightyears away in the constellation Scorpius, may look empty, but in reality it's a cloud of dust and gas so dense that it blocks the light from the stars beyond.
