This is the Sculptor Galaxy as you've never seen it before. Taken with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, this false colour view shows the central part of the galaxy, aka NGC 253, which is 11 million lightyears away. - ThreadSky

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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social • 6 days ago

This is the Sculptor Galaxy as you've never seen it before.

Taken with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, this false colour view shows the central part of the galaxy, aka NGC 253, which is 11 million lightyears away.

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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social•6 days ago

In this view, pink light corresponds to gas excited by the radiation from newly formed stars, whereas the white light in the middle is from the outflow of gas from the galaxy's central black hole.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2510/

Image credit: ESO/E. Congiu et al.