Skull and Crossbones Nebula haunts the cosmos in new image

Skull and Crossbones Nebula haunts the cosmos in new image

6 years ago
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https://www.cnet.com/news/skull-and-crossbones-nebula-haunts-the-cosmos-in-new-image/

The new image comes to us from the FORS2 instrument on the ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile. FORS2 can take images of large swathes of the sky and is responsible for some of the telescope's most memorable views, including the Crab Nebula and spiral galaxy NGC 1232.

If you're puzzling out how NGC 2467 looks like a skull, then you might want to check out an earlier ESO image from 2005 that shows the ominous shape a little more clearly.