Open cluster
Stellar Family Portrait Takes Imaging Technique to New Extremes
by Alexandre Costa on Dec.03, 2009, under ESO, Open cluster, Satellites, Probes and Telescopes
Source: ESO 47/09 – Photo Release
Trumpler 14 image obtained with Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD)
mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO/VLT
The young star cluster Trumpler 14 is revealed in another stunning ESO image. Never before has such a large patch of sky been imaged using adaptive optics, a technique by which astronomers are able to remove most of the atmosphere’s blurring effects. (Read more)
