NGC 6523 | Lagoon Nebula Wall Art Size:COSMIC (48 X 32) An image of the emission

An image of the emission nebula NGC 6188 taken by ESO's 3

The target rock

Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

In this black and white infrared image

which is mostly light from stars

NGC 6523 | Lagoon Nebula Wall Art Size:COSMIC (48 X 32) An image of the emissionThe third image of ESOs GigaGalaxy Zoom project is an amazing vista of the Lagoon Nebula taken with the 67 million pixel Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG ESO 2. 2 metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The image covers more than one and a half square degree an area eight times larger than that of the Full Moon with a total of about 370 million pixels. It is based on images acquired using three different broadband filters (B, V, R)