Munich, Germany (SPX) May 12, 2023 -
Using ESO s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), astronomers have created a vast infrared atlas of five nearby stellar nurseries by piecing together more than one million ima
Space dust usually makes young stars virtually invisible to our eyes but research undertaken by astronomers used a million images of never before seen objects in an attempt to answer complex questions about the formation of stars.
Using ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), astronomers have created a vast infrared atlas of five nearby stellar nurseries by piecing together more than one million images. These large mosaics reveal young stars in the making, embedded in thick clouds of dust. Thanks to these observations, astronomers have a unique tool with which to decipher the complex puzzle of stellar birth.