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'Space butterfly' created by a giant bubble of gas in the Milky Way - Daily Mail

'Space butterfly' created by a giant bubble of gas in the Milky Way - Daily Mail

'Space butterfly' created by a giant bubble of gas in the Milky Way - Daily Mail
Jul 31, 2020 1 min, 9 secs

The striking planetary nebula, known as NGC 2899, appears to float and flutter across the sky in this pristine image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile.

This highly detailed image of NGC 2899 planetary nebula was captured using the FORS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in northern Chile.

NGC 2899, discovered by English astronomer John Herschel in 1835, is located somewhere between 3,000 and 6,500 light-years away in the Southern constellation of Vela. ?

An image of the Omega Nebula, captured by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) with a dusty, rose-coloured centre.

The glowing green planetary nebula IC 1295 surrounding a dim and dying star

The planetary nebula IC 1295 was revealed surrounding a dim and dying star located about 3,300 light-years away in the constellation of Scutum.  

The European Southern observatory (ESO) built the most powerful telescope ever made in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and called it the Very Large Telescope (VLT)

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