To celebrate a decade of Dark Energy Cameras (Dark energy camera/ DECam), astronomers release a photo showing thousands of stars Nebula Lobster or Lobster of the Nebula.
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The Lobster Nebula or NGC 6357 captured by the Dark Energy Camera. Credits: CTIO / NOIRLab / DOE / NSF / AURA, TA Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage / NOIRLab of NSF), J. Miller (Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab of NSF), M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NOIRLab of NSF )
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The Dark Energy Camera is a camera mounted on the Victor M. Blanco Telescope, a 4-meter telescope located at Cerro Tololo Inter-American ObservatoryChile. This 570 megapixel camera is one of the best performing widefield CCD cameras in the world!
The best performance, so the resulting image can provide extraordinary detail for us. Especially for ground instrumentation. Inevitably over the past 10 years, DECam has helped enrich the treasures of astronomy and astrophysics with the images it produces.
To celebrate the Decam decade, astronomers have released this image of the Giant Shrimp Nebula, also known as the Lobster Nebula, which shows thousands of stars in and around the star’s manger.
The Lobster Nebula aka the Giant Shrimp Nebula or NGC 6357. Yes! Its name can really make us imagine delicious food. Unfortunately, this giant shrimp is not served on a plate or we find it in the sea, but in the Universe.
The Lobster Nebula is far from us. It is located 8,000 light years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpio. This image taken by DECam shows young stars surrounded by clouds of gas and dust. Inside the Lobster Nebula are clouds of gas and dust that are still actively forming new stars.
At the center of the Nebula is the open cluster of Pismis 24 which covers about 400 light years! Within the Pismis 24 cluster are massive stars that are extraordinarily bright. Around cluster Pismis 24, there is a region filled with small stars, protostars still wrapped in a cocoon of star-forming material, and dense cores of gas and dust that will eventually form new stars.
Meanwhile, the twisting dark clouds and complex structures that exist in the Nebula are formed by the pressure of the interstellar wind, stellar radiation and, of course, the strong stellar magnetic field of the massive stars in the nebula.
Interesting facts:
The Lobster Nebula image was taken at a new wavelength range by the DECam narrowband filter. The advantage is that astronomers can measure the content of metals or heavy elements in the nebula and detect the presence of a population of stars with a low metal content.
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