Cosmic Dust Clouds in Messier 78 PopWallet canvas FORS 2 is an extremely

FORS 2 is an extremely versatile instrument that can produce very high-quality images (like this one

The results are of great interest because they shed new light on the poorly understood ejection of stellar matter which accompanies the slow death of Sun-like stars

An image of the emission nebula NGC 6188 taken by ESO's 3

stars are given names based on their relative brightness within a constellation

The cluster of bright stars to the upper right is NGC 6611

Cosmic Dust Clouds in Messier 78 PopWallet canvas FORS 2 is an extremelyThis image of the region surrounding the reflection nebula Messier 78, just to the north of Orions belt, shows clouds of cosmic dust threaded through the nebula like a string of pearls. The submillimetre wavelength observations, made with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope and shown here in orange, use the heat glow of interstellar dust grains to show astronomers where new stars are being formed. They are overlaid on a view of the