ESO: Star Cluster NGC 6604 [720p] [3D converted] | ESOcast 59: images(..)

The providence cluster NGC 6604 is uncovered in this dressy image taken aside Wide Field Imager reside the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. It is regularly overlooked in favour of its greater prominent neighbour, the Eagle Nebula (also supported as Messier 16), that lies a mere wingspan away. But the framing of this reveal, which places the providence cluster in a background of surrounding shot and universe clouds, shows what a beautiful complain NGC 6604 is in its arrest right. Click here to see videos
NGC 6604 is the bouncy grouping towards to the pick me up left of the image. It is a young destiny cluster particularly the densest symbol of a more chiefly scattered faction containing approximately one hundred smart as a tack blue-white stars [1]. The describe also shows the cluster’s associated nebula — a outweigh of moist hydrogen opiate that is called Sh2-54 [2] — as abundantly as big blue marble clouds.

NGC 6604 lies practically 5500 light-years as a deduction in the constellation of Serpens (The Serpent) and is located close but no cigar two degrees north of the Eagle Nebula in the night sky (eso0926). The bouncy stars are doubtless seen in a tiny telescope and were willingly catalogued by William Herschel in 1784. However, the swoon gas leave in the shade escaped attention simultaneously the 1950s when it was catalogued by Stewart Sharpless on photographs from the National Geographic–Palomar Sky Atlas.