NGC 6729 Wall Art including Frame phone case Credit: NASA/ESA

Credit: NASA/ESA

but the excellent optical quality of the VLT and FORS allows us to see an incredible wealth of details

and Jim Lovell aboard

an HII region — a cloud of ionised hydrogen — located in the constellation of Puppis (the Stern)

NGC 6729 Wall Art including Frame phone case Credit: NASA/ESAThis very detailed enhanced colour image from ESOs Very Large Telescope shows the dramatic effects of very young stars on the dust and gas from which they were born in the star forming region NGC 6729. The baby stars are invisible in this picture, being hidden behind dust clouds at the upper left of the picture, but material they are ejecting is crashing into the surroundings at speeds of that can be as high as one million kilometres per hour. This