Crux and Coalsack Nebula - Gigalaxy Size:40x50 cm The galaxy is 50

The galaxy is 50

Mars Science Laboratory and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

is well in the foreground compared with the other four

and has an image scale of 67 meters (220 feet) per pixel

The brightest and most compact of these star birth regions are called super star clusters

Crux and Coalsack Nebula - Gigalaxy Size:40x50 cm The galaxy is 50On the southern Milky Way there is an area which can be easily spoted even an unexperienced night sky observer. It is a darker, hand size part of the sky in the middle of the Milky Way disk. It is the Coalsack nebula located near very a characteristic Crux constellation. This nebula is an around 30 light years wide star dust cloud. It can be easily spotted even by the naked eye, because it blocks the light from the dense Milky Way in the background.