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The Pencil Nebula: Wide-field View | ESO

The Pencil Nebula: Wide-field View | ESO


This image of the region of sky around the Pencil Nebula shows a spectacular celestial landscape featuring the blue filaments of the Vela supernova remnant, the red glow of clouds of hydrogen and countless stars. It is a color composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2.


Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Digitized Sky Survey 2

Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin

Release Date: September 12, 2012


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