This zoom sequence takes the viewer deep into the spectacular southern Milky Way in the constellation of Carina (The Keel). We see two regions where stars are forming, the very rich cluster NGC 3603 and its surroundings and the strange glowing gas clouds known as NGC 3576. The final detailed views come from images taken with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. About the Object Name: NGC 3603 Data: simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=NGC+3603 Type: • Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation Facility: MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope Related releases A Spectacular Landscape of Star Formation: eso.org/public/news/eso1425/ This image, captured by the Wide Field Imager at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows two dramatic star formation regions in the southern Milky Way. The first is of these, on the left, is dominated by the star cluster NGC 3603, located 20 000 light-years away, in the Carina–Sagittarius spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. The second object, on the right, is a collection of glowing gas clouds known as NGC 3576 that lies only about half as far from Earth. Release date: 20 August 2014 Credit: ESO/G. Beccari/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org). Music: movetwo
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