H II Region | Sharpless 29 | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Color:Navy Glimpses below the clouds reveal

Glimpses below the clouds reveal volcanoes and deformed mountains

astronaut and associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters

The image covers more than one and a half square degree — an area eight times larger than that of the Full Moon — with a total of about 370 million pixels

Stanghellini

they have cast off layers of gas periodically over the past couple thousand years

H II Region | Sharpless 29 | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Color:Navy Glimpses below the clouds revealThe OmegaCAM imager on ESOs VLT Survey Telescope has captured this glittering view of the stellar nursery called Sharpless 29. Many astronomical phenomena can be seen in this giant image, including cosmic dust and gas clouds that reflect, absorb, and re emit the light of hot young stars within the nebula. Credit: ESO