NGC 1531, NGC 1532 Wall Art tapestry From archival images obtained by

From archival images obtained by the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope (seen here) as well as from observations done with the APEX 12-metre sub-millimetre telescope

This is an image of MyCn18

The image covers more than one and a half square degree — an area eight times larger than that of the Full Moon — with a total of about 370 million pixels

The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation from the monster stars that inhabit this inferno

NGC 1531, NGC 1532 Wall Art tapestry From archival images obtained byThe pair of galaxies NGC 1531 2, engaged in a spirited waltz, is located about 70 million light years away towards the southern constellation Eridanus (The River). The deformed foreground spiral galaxy laced with dust lanes NGC 1532 is so close to its companion the background galaxy with a bright core just above the centre of NGC 1532 that it gets distorted: one of its spiral arms is warped and plumes of dust and gas are visible above its disc. The