10 million stars blocked by clouds of galaxies

A telescope from the Southern Europe Observatory captured a "magnificent image" of the great magellanic cloud, one of the galaxies located approximately 163,000 light-years apart.

The photo, published in the latest issue of the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, shows that millions of stars have been able to show the capabilities of the "VISTA" telescope after successfully neutralizing the dust clouds of the galaxy behind the stars.

The VISTA telescope is vast, with a mirror size of 4.1 meters, located in the Paranal Observatory in Chile, it is operated by the Observatory of Southern Europe and began to operate in December 2009.

The telescope monitors the sky with waves near the infrared that make the clouds transparent and become the many individual stars that fill the center of the galaxy.

"We analyzed about 10 million stars in detail in the Great Magellanic Galaxy, located 163,000 light-years from Earth," said Jaco Van Lun of the University of Kiel in Britain , principal investigator of the study. "We have found that young stars take the form of multiple spiral arms."

Van Lone is delighted with his analysis of the telescope image, the value of the galaxy, one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, which belongs to the planet and houses various star clusters, a ideal laboratory for astronomers who study the processes that make them.

For thousands of years, the Magellanic cloud galaxy has fascinated the inhabitants of the southern hemisphere, but the Europeans largely ignored it until its discovery by the l & # 39; Portuguese explorer and traveler Ferdinand Magellan, whose name dates back to almost 500 years ago. Around the earth.

Magellan's journey revealed for the first time many places and objects for Europeans. The spirit of discovery became more alive today with the advancement of potential, which allowed the "VISTA" telescope to capture the incredible image being studied.