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Zooming in on NGC 3603
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Zooming in on NGC 3603, the cosmic factory where stars form frantically from the nebula’s extended clouds of gas and dust. Located 22 000 light-years away from the Sun, it is the closest region of this kind known in our galaxy, providing astronomers with a local test bed for studying intense star formation processes, very common in other galaxies, but hard to observe in detail because of their large distance.
Credit:
ESO/A. Fujii/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Music by John Dyson.
About the Video
| Id: | eso1005a |
| Release date: | 3 February 2010, 12:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1005 |
| Duration: | 50s |
About the Object
| Type: | • X - Nebulae • X - Stars |
