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The star cluster Terzan 5
This near-infrared image was obtained with the Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope. Observations in two bands (J and K) were combined. The field of view is 40 arcseconds across.
Credit: ESO/F. Ferraro
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Around star cluster Terzan 5
This wide-field image, based on data from Digitized Sky Survey 2, shows the whole region around the stellar grouping Terzan 5.
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
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Zooming on Terzan 5
This video zooms in onto the cluster, starting from a wide view of the central parts of our home galaxy, and finishing with an amazing near-infrared image obtained with the Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope.
Credit: ESO/S. Guisard/Digitized Sky Survey 2/F. Ferraro
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Quicktime Screensize (14,67 MB) vid-45a-09_P_QTS.mov