Galaxy Map
ESOA cosmic hawk and its starry eyasses 🐦
What looks like a hawk spanning its wings above massive newly born stars is the RCW 36 nebula.
Now, a team of astronomers has used, yes, the HAWK-I instrument on our VLT to study the very dim stars called brown dwarfs hidden in the nebula and how they form: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2609a/
📷 ESO/A. R. G. do Brito do Vale et al.
