Zooming into Star Cluster NGC 6520 & Dark Cloud Barnard 86 | ESO Support FriendsofNASA.org: This video sequence starts with a view of the spectacular Milky Way. As we zoom in towards the center we see a huge cloud of faint stars, this is the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud. On top of this cloud there is a much smaller dark feature called Barnard 86 and in the final view from the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile we see not only the geck

Journey to The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius | European Southern Observatory FriendsofNASA.org: This zoom takes the viewer from a wide view of the central parts of the Milky Way deep into a detailed picture of the Messier 8 star formation region—the Lagoon Nebula—from the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. This giant cloud of gas and dust is creating intensely bright young stars, and is home to young stellar clusters. Commonly known as the Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8 (M8) wa