A drop of ink on the luminous sky. Wide Field Imager snaps cosmic gecko WWW.GOODNEWS.WS from ma chile video Watch Video
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Description: http://goodnews.ws/nnZooming into the star cluster NGC 6520 and the dark cloud Barnard 86: This video sequence starts with a view of the spectacular Milky Way. As we zoom in towards the centre we see a huge cloud of faint stars, this is the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud. On top of this cloud there is a much smaller dark feature called Barnard 86 and in the final view from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile we see not only the gecko-shaped dark cloud but also it
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