Cosmic Dust Clouds in Messier 78 PopWallet canvas with turquoise-tinted currents and nebulous

with turquoise-tinted currents and nebulous strands reaching out into the surroundings

FORS 2 is an extremely versatile instrument that can produce very high-quality images (like this one

Year: About 225 Earth days

we're seeing seasonal changes on Saturn

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2

Cosmic Dust Clouds in Messier 78 PopWallet canvas with turquoise-tinted currents and nebulousThis image of the region surrounding the reflection nebula Messier 78, just to the north of Orions belt, shows clouds of cosmic dust threaded through the nebula like a string of pearls. The submillimetre wavelength observations, made with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope and shown here in orange, use the heat glow of interstellar dust grains to show astronomers where new stars are being formed. They are overlaid on a view of the