Zoom in on the embedded star cluster RCW 38

This video zooms in on the RCW 38 massive cluster of stars. Starting with a wide angle view made with an amateur telescope, then to an image from Digitized Sky Survey 2, going to an image made with the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at La Silla and finishing with an image made with the NACO adaptive optics instrument attached to ESO’s Very Large Telescope.

Credit:

ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2, A. Fujii. Music by John Dyson from the CD darklight

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Id:eso0929a
Release date:19 August 2009
Related releases:eso0929
Duration:56 s
Frame rate:30 fps

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Category:Star Clusters

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