{"id":27063,"date":"2024-10-31T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=27063"},"modified":"2024-10-30T16:39:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:39:18","slug":"eso-vlt-telescope-captures-a-dark-wolf-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=27063","title":{"rendered":"ESO: VLT telescope captures a dark wolf in the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new report from the European Southern Observatory (ESO<\/a>):<\/p>\n

New ESO image captures a dark wolf in the sky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO\u2019s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 light-years from Earth, the cold clouds of cosmic dust create the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful backdrop of glowing gas clouds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop. Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, it was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO\u2019s Paranal Observatory in Chile.<\/p>\n

Found in the constellation Scorpius, near the centre of the Milky Way on the sky, the Dark Wolf Nebula is located around 5300 light-years from Earth. This image takes up an area in the sky equivalent to four full Moons, but is actually part of an even larger nebula called Gum 55. If you look closely, the wolf could even be a werewolf, its hands ready to grab unsuspecting bystanders\u2026<\/p>\n

If you thought that darkness equals emptiness, think again. Dark nebulae are cold clouds of cosmic dust, so dense that they obscure the light of stars and other objects behind them. As their name suggests, they do not emit visible light, unlike other nebulae. Dust grains within them absorb visible light and only let through radiation at longer wavelengths<\/a>, like infrared light. Astronomers study these clouds of frozen dust because they often contain new stars in the making.<\/p>\n