Zoom Into Dark Nebula Circinus West - Stretches 180 Light Years

The Circinus West molecular cloud has been captured by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam).

DECam is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF NOIRLab.

Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/N. Bartmann (NSF NOIRLab)
Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
Edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta