Tag Archive for 'RCW 38'

This VISTA/VIRCAM image shows the super star cluster RCW 38. Image credit: ESO / VVVX Survey.

VISTA Captures Most Detailed Image Ever of RCW 38

Feb 13, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) have created a stunning 80-million-pixel image of the star cluster...

This image from the HAWK-I/GRAAL system on ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows the super star cluster RCW 38. Image credit: K. Muzic / ESO.

ESO’s Very Large Telescope Takes Closer Look at RCW 38

Jul 11, 2018 by Natali Anderson

The High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager (HAWK-I) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has taken the most detailed infrared image so far of a...

False-color near-infrared image of the core of the young massive cluster RCW 38 taken with the adaptive-optics camera NACO on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. RCW 38 lies at a distance of about 5,500 light years from the Sun. The field of view of the central image is approximately 1 arc minute, or 1.5 light-years across. The insets, each spanning about 0.07 light-years on a side, show a subset of the faintest and least massive cluster candidate brown dwarfs (indicated by arrows) of RCW 38 discovered in this new image. Image credit: Muzic et al.

Milky Way Galaxy is Home to At Least 25 Billion Brown Dwarfs

Jul 5, 2017 by News Staff

A new estimate suggests that the Milky Way’s population of brown dwarfs — objects too large to be a planet but too small to be a star — exceeds...