Lobster Nebula Seen with ESO’s VISTA Telescope Space Wallpaper

Monday, February 25, 2013 - 00:30 in Astronomy & Space

This space wallpaper from ESO’s VISTA telescope reveals a celestial landscape of vast, glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar nursery known as NGC 6357 in a new light.

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