{"id":5563,"date":"2025-02-15T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T09:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2025-02-19T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T07:00:47","slug":"op-313-the-blazar-roars-again-media-inaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/op-313-the-blazar-roars-again-media-inaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Star cluster reveals its colours in stunning 80-million-pixel ESO image &#8211; ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO\u2019s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), operating in Chile\u2019s Atacama Desert. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/unitedkingdom\/news\/eso2503\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ESO Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1154\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/eso2503_eng.png\" alt=\"This is an 80-million-pixel picture of the star cluster RCW 38, located 5500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. RCW 38 is a young cluster containing about 2000 stars, and is bursting with star-forming activity.\n\nThe picture was taken with ESO\u2019s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), operating in Chile\u2019s Atacama Desert. It shows a mixture of gas, dust and stars, creating an extravagant, yet spectacular landscape. As VISTA observes infrared light, it is able to peer through most of the dust in this region, which would block our view when observing in visible light. Behind the dust, VISTA is showing young stars within dusty cocoons and cold \u2018failed\u2019 stars known as brown dwarfs, thus revealing the secrets within these young stellar nurseries.\n\nCredit:\nESO\/VVVX survey\" class=\"wp-image-5569\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is an 80-million-pixel picture of the star cluster RCW 38, located 5500 light-years away in the constellation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vela_(constellation)\">Vela<\/a>. RCW 38 is a young cluster containing about 2000 stars, and is bursting with star-forming activity.<br>The picture was taken with ESO\u2019s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/paranal-observatory\/surveytelescopes\/vista\/\">VISTA<\/a>), operating in Chile\u2019s Atacama Desert. It shows a mixture of gas, dust and stars, creating an extravagant, yet spectacular landscape. As VISTA observes infrared light, it is able to peer through most of the dust in this region, which would block our view when observing in visible light. Behind the dust, VISTA is showing young stars within dusty cocoons and cold \u2018failed\u2019 stars known as brown dwarfs, thus revealing the secrets within these young stellar nurseries<strong> &#8211; Credit:<\/strong>ESO\/VVVX survey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO\u2019s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), operating in Chile\u2019s Atacama Desert. \u2013 ESO Press Release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[478,390,479],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-cluster-rcw38","tag-eso-2","tag-vista-telescope"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/eso2503_eng.png",1154,744,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/eso2503_eng.png",150,97,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/eso2503_eng.png",300,193,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/eso2503_eng.png",768,495,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/eso2503_eng.png",1024,660,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/eso2503_eng.png",1154,744,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/eso2503_eng.png",1154,744,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO\u2019s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), operating in Chile\u2019s Atacama Desert. \u2013 ESO Press Release This is an 80-million-pixel picture of the star cluster RCW 38, located 5500 light-years away in the constellation&nbsp;Vela. RCW 38 is a young cluster containing about 2000 stars, and is bursting with star-forming activity.The picture was taken with ESO\u2019s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), operating in Chile\u2019s Atacama Desert. It shows a mixture of gas, dust and stars,&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5579,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/5579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}