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| The Very Large Telescope Snaps a Stellar Nursery and Celebrates Fifteen Years of Operations |
VISTA's infrared view of the Orion Nebula* |
The Helix Nebula* |
VST image of the star-forming region Messier 17 |
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| A 340-million pixel starscape from Paranal |
NGC 2264 and the Christmas Tree cluster* |
NGC 2467 and Surroundings* |
The Horsehead Nebula* |
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| The Carina Nebula imaged by the VLT Survey Telescope |
ESO’s VLT reveals the Carina Nebula's hidden secrets |
Messier 78: a reflection nebula in Orion |
Panoramic view of the WR 22 and Eta Carinae regions of the Carina Nebula* |
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| The hidden fires of the Flame Nebula* |
370-million-pixel starscape of the Lagoon Nebula |
The Milky Way panorama |
The Omega Nebula |
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| The Lupus 3 dark cloud and associated hot young stars |
The R Coronae Australis region imaged with the Wide Field Imager at La Silla* |
The Eagle Nebula |
Thor’s Helmet Nebula imaged on the occasion of ESO’s 50th Anniversary |
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| VISTA’s infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula* |
Stellar nursery NGC 3603* |
The Trifid Nebula |
The Lobster Nebula seen with ESO’s VISTA telescope |
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| The mouthpiece of the Pipe Nebula |
ESO’s Very Large Telescope Peers into a Distant Nebula* |
Infrared VISTA view of a stellar nursery in Monoceros* |
Portrait of a Dramatic Stellar Crib* |
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| The Orion Nebula* |
Close-up of the drama of star formation |
Glowing Stellar Nurseries* |
N44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud |
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| The Pencil Nebula, a strangely shaped leftover from a vast explosion |
The star formation region NGC 6559 |
VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey view of the Tarantula Nebula* |
Really Hot Stars |
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| The Eagle's EGGs * |
Close-up view of the head of the Seagull Nebula |
VISTA’s look at the Helix Nebula |
The Cool Clouds of Carina |
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| The Crab Nebula in Taurus |
The Dumbbell Nebula |
Two very different glowing gas clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud |
The Orion Nebula* |
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| VISTA's infrared view of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) |
The glowing cloud Sharpless 2-296, part of the Seagull Nebula |
The Cat's Paw Remastered |
The bright star cluster NGC 6520 and the strangely shaped dark cloud Barnard 86 |
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| The Cat's Paw Nebula* |
Barnard's Galaxy |
Bok Globule B68 |
Star-forming Region RCW 108 in Ara |