NGC 1531, NGC 1532 Wall Art tapestry Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud survey

Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud survey

but above all about the large-scale mapping of the universe

the submillimetre emission is shown as the blue clouds surrounding the reddish glow of the ionised gas (shown with data from the SuperCosmos H-alpha survey)

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

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

NGC 1531, NGC 1532 Wall Art tapestry Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud surveyThe 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