Young star cluster Trumpler 14 revealed in stunning image

The young star cluster Trumpler 14 is revealed in a stunning ESO image. The amount of exquisite detail seen in this portrait, which beautifully reveals the life of a large family of stars, is due to the multi-conjugate adaptive optics demonstrator on ESO's Very Large Telescope. Never before has such a large patch of sky been imaged using adaptive optics, a technique by which astronomers are able to remove most of the atmosphere's blurring effects.

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