The Trilogy is Complete — GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 3

By Ben on September 28, 2009 at 10:51 am | In Blog Posts | No Comments

Part 3 featuring M8 (Lagoon Nebula) is now posted.
–Ben

The Trilogy is Complete — GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 3

The third image of ESO’s GigaGalaxy Zoom project has just been released online, completing this eye-opening dive into our galactic home in outstanding fashion. The latest image follows on from views, released over the last two weeks, of the sky as seen with the unaided eye and through an amateur telescope. This third instalment provides another breathtaking vista of an astronomical object, this time a 370-million-pixel view of the Lagoon Nebula of the quality and depth needed by professional astronomers in their quest to understand our Universe.

370-million-pixel starscape
of the Lagoon Nebula

http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-36-09.html

http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/