The awe-inspiring view was captured by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) instrument on a telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which sits at an altitude of 7,200ft.
A lack of usable water is becoming a problem in areas where it wasn’t before, due to climate change. But in the Canary Islands, locals are finding that fog can make up for shortfalls on farms.
The strange spatial strands, some of which stretch up to 150 light years across, were first discovered by astronomers at Northwestern University back in the early 1980s.
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Beta Crucis, also known as Mimosa, is the heaviest of thousands of stars to have their age determined by asteroseismology, according to researchers at the Australian National University.