NGC 2280 (captured by EFOSC2)
NGC 2280 whirls in the cosmos about 75 million light years from us; this snapshot therefore shows the galaxy as it appeared when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.
The very bright stars that sparkle like diamonds in the image, as well as the many other stars of various colors, are all in the foreground of our view, as they lie much closer to us than NGC 2280.
The image was captured with the ESO Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (EFOSC2) through three filters (B, V, R). EFOSC2 was attached to the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. EFOSC2 has a field of view of 4.1×4.1 arcminutes.![]() |
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