Quarks to Quasars

A Cosmic Christmas Ghost

Credit:ESO

Just like Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol takes us on a journey into past, present and future in the time of only one Christmas Eve, two of ESO’ s telescopes captured various stages in the life of a star in a single image. This image from telescopes at the European Southern Observatory in Chile shows a vast stellar cluster surrounded by gas that resembles a vast cosmic ghost. The image, released on Dec. 25, 2005, hows the area surrounding the stellar cluster NGC 2467, This image from telescopes at the European Southern Observatory in Chile shows a vast stellar cluster surrounded by gas that resembles a vast cosmic ghost. The image, released on Dec. 25, 2005, hows the area surrounding the stellar cluster NGC 2467, located in the southern constellation of Puppis (“The Stern”).

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