Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Fly with us to the relatively nearby Sculptor Galaxy… 11 million light years away from us.
This galaxy is the subject of a highly detailed portrait, an image that astronomers made containing thousands of colours. To capture the galaxy in this light, the team of researchers observed it for over 50 hours with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT).
This zoom was created with images from different telescopes stitched together, covering progressively smaller areas in the sky, ending on the final portrait in all its glory.
Credit:
ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)/Digitized Sky Survey 2/E. Congiu et al. Music: Azul Cobalto
Fly with us to the relatively nearby Sculptor Galaxy… 11 million light years away from us.
This galaxy is the subject of a highly detailed portrait, an image that astronomers made containing thousands of colours. To capture the galaxy in this light, the team of researchers observed it for over 50 hours with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT).
This zoom was created with images from different telescopes stitched together, covering progressively smaller areas in the sky, ending on the final portrait in all its glory.
Credit:
ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)/Digitized Sky Survey 2/E. Congiu et al. Music: Azul Cobalto
