Zooming in on the interacting galaxy system NGC 5291 #ESO

Publicado em 13 de dez de 2015

This video takes us from a broad view of the southern Milky Way deep into the large constellation of Centaurus. The sequence ends with a close-up view from ESO’s Very Large Telescope of an interacting galaxy called NGC 5291, about 200 million light-years from Earth.

More information and download options: http://eso.org/public/videos/eso1547a/

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)