Tag Archive for 'Trifid Nebula'

This composite combines 678 separate images, taken by NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time, and shows the Trifid (top right) and Lagoon nebulae. Image credit: RubinObs / NOIRLab / SLAC / NSF / DOE / AURA.

Vera C. Rubin Observatory Releases Its First Images

Jun 24, 2025 by News Staff

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a major new scientific facility jointly funded by NSF and the U.S. DoE’s Office of Science. The new images are a small...

This image shows the famous Trifid Nebula to the right of center; it appears as faint and ghostly at these infrared wavelengths when compared to the familiar view at visible wavelengths; this transparency has brought its own benefits - many previously hidden background objects can now be seen clearly; among these are two newly discovered Cepheid variable stars, the first ever spotted on the far side of our Milky Way Galaxy near its central plane. Image credit: ESO / VVV consortium / D. Minniti.

Astronomers Zoom in on Trifid Nebula, Discover Two Distant Cepheids

Feb 4, 2015 by News Staff

A team of astronomers led by Dr István Dékány from Millennium Institute of Astrophysics and the Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, has...