VIRCAM, the camera used to capture these images, can observe an area as large as 3x3 full Moons! 🌕🌕🌕 🌕🌕🌕 🌕🌕🌕 This makes it a unique instrument to study these vast stellar nurseries. 4/

Thanks to these observations, astronomers have a unique tool with which to decipher the complex puzzle of stellar birth. Curious to learn more? Go here: 🔗 eso.org/public/news/es… 5.

Did you see the new infrared images of star-forming regions we just released? One of them has 520 megapixels! 🤯 Here's a game: 🔍 zoom all the way in with the link below 🖼️ take a screenshot of an interesting area 🗨️ and post it as a reply below 🔗 orlo.uk/73Ypo

ESO press release: ESO telescope reveals hidden views of vast stellar nurseries eso.org/public/news/es… Articles by Meingast et al.: aanda.org/10.1051/0004-6… aanda.org/10.1051/0004-6…

Astronomy & Astrophysics to remain in Open Access under Subscribe to Open model in 2023 aanda.org/2023-press-rel…

#ESOCastLight Piecing together more than one million images, astronomers created large mosaics that reveal young stars in the making. #BiteSizedAstronomy in #4K #UHD

Zoom into regions of the night sky and discover the home of astronomical objects such as black holes, exoplanets and more. Watch here: orlo.uk/zKFgm Don't forget to: ✅ Hit subscribe to our YouTube channel 🔔 Click on the notification icon

Read the PR published by ESO on the infrared atlas of five nearby stellar nurseries that give new insights on young stars and the stellar birth. 🔭 Lead author is Stefan Meingast of the department of #Astrophysics at Universität Wien: ⤵ eso.org/public/news/es…

The atlas pieced together more than one million images, by using data from VISTA, ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey #Telescope for #Astronomy. The result: reveiling new objects, that have never been seen before, to shed some more light on young stars in the making. ☁✨

“In these images we can detect even the faintest sources of light, like stars far less massive than the Sun, revealing objects that no one has ever seen before,” says Stefan Meingast, “This will allow us to understand the processes that transform gas and dust into stars.”

The research was published in the paper "VISIONS: The VISTA Star Formation ATLAS", by Stefan Meingast, João Alves @[email protected] et al. Read it here: ⤵ eso.org/public/archive… #univienna

Find the animation with beautiful images on the hidden views of star nurseries, and more info about the infrared atlas on #ESO's Youtube channel: ⤵ youtube.com/watch?v=0cCMSO…

Happy to share some good news... got tenure! astro.univie.ac.at/en/latest/alva…

The Austrian capital Vienna has been named the world's most liveable city cnn.it/42Xxu5q

Mañana y pasado se celebra en la sede de UNED Almería el 50 aniversario de Observatorio Astronómico de Calar Alto 🪐El 20 repasamos de la historia de CAHA con sus antiguos directores y el 21 tendremos charlas de Yolanda Jiménez y Camilla Danielski Se transmitirá en streaming en acortar.link/hkcH4p

New research led by Cameren Swiggum & João Alves @[email protected] from #univienna and Bob Benjamin🌌 🏳️‍🌈📡 from UW-Whitewater reveals that many nearby star clusters originate from just three "families." ✨ 📷 (c) ESO/STScI Digitized Sky Survey

These findings, published in nature, show these clusters come from highly active star-forming regions, with supernovae influencing gas distribution in the Milky Way. This groundbreaking work combines data from European Space Agency's Gaia and NASA's TESS missions. #Astrophysics #StarClusters

🌠 This research provides insights into the dynamic processes shaping our galaxy's structure, highlighting the interconnected nature of stellar families. Kudos to the team at Universität Wien for this stellar discovery! #Science #Research #MilkyWay

Read the #publication here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

The press release of the University of Vienna can be found here: medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recen…