IC 2944 | Milky Way Women's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Color:navy observatories like the VLT are

observatories like the VLT are our first steps

The image foreshadows the final fate of the Sun

and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

and much of it centers on understanding dark matter

IC 2944 | Milky Way Women's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Color:navy observatories like the VLT areThis intriguing new view of a spectacular stellar nursery IC 2944 is being released to celebrate a milestone: 15 years of ESOs Very Large Telescope. This image also shows a group of thick clouds of dust known as the Thackeray globules silhouetted against the pale pink glowing gas of the nebula. These globules are under fierce bombardment from the ultraviolet radiation from nearby hot young stars. They are both being eroded away and also fragmenting,