VFTS 102: The Fastest Rotating Massive Star Wall Art including Frame Sizes:LARGE (30x30) Maercker et al

Maercker et al

But the Fine Ring Nebula — captured here by the ESO Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera mounted on the New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile — looks like an almost perfect circular ring

Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Variations in color of the rocks hint at the diversity of their composition on lower Mount Sharp

from our own solar system to faraway galaxies

VFTS 102: The Fastest Rotating Massive Star Wall Art including Frame Sizes:LARGE (30x30) Maercker et alThis view shows part of the stellar nursery called the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighbour of the Milky Way. At the centre lies the brilliant star VFTS 102 This view includes both visible light and infrared images from the Wide Field Imager at the MPG ESO 2. 2 metre telescope at La Silla and the 4. 1 metre infrared VISTA telescope at Paranal. VFTS 102 is the most rapidly rotating star ever found. Credit: ESO M. R. Cioni