NGC 6523 | Lagoon Nebula Android Phone Case tapestry and likely several others

and likely several others

which is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars

while the right half of this image is obscured by a dense cloud of dust

including one that appears a short distance above and to the left of the galaxy

not shown in the image

NGC 6523 | Lagoon Nebula Android Phone Case tapestry and likely several othersThe 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)