The US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has captured interstellar cloud Lupus 3. A pair of young stars can bee seen "bursting from their natal cocoons of dust and gas to illuminate the reflection nebula known as Bernes 149," according to NOIRLab.
Credit Images and Videos:
Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Matsopoulos, Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Bartmann/D. de Martin Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin Music: Stellardrone - Airglow
