Wide-field view of the Fornax Galaxy Cluster Wall Art space Holland Ford (JHU)

Holland Ford (JHU)

The colours of the different regions are well visible : the central areas contain older stars of reddish colour

This image was taken as part of the ESO Cosmic Gems programme [1] using the FORS instrument on the Very Large Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile

It was rebinned (2x2) to 4kx4k size and sampling 0

000 kilometers) from the planet’s cloud tops at a latitude of about 58 degrees south

Wide-field view of the Fornax Galaxy Cluster Wall Art space Holland Ford (JHU)The Fornax Galaxy Cluster is one of the closest such groupings beyond our own Local Group of galaxies. This visible light wide field image of the cluster was created from photographs taken through red and blue filters and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The field of view is approximately three degrees across. Credit: ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin