Sunday, June 29, 2025

Cotton Candy Nebula Photographed by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

 



(Image credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA)

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory recently came online and is producing wonderful photographs of space. The photo shown is the Cotton Candy nebula (Messier 20) located 5,000 light-years distant in the constellation Sagittarius.

Zoomable photo: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2521ah/zoomable/


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