The massive, star-forming #InterstellarCloud Lupus 3 is captured with the 570-megapixel US Department of Energy-fabricated #DarkEnergyCamera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2313/ - the dazzling central region of this sprawling cloud reveals a pair of infant #stars bursting from their natal cocoons of dust and gas to illuminate the reflection nebula known as Bernes 149.

The massive, star-forming #InterstellarCloud Lupus 3 is captured with the 570-megapixel US Department of Energy-fabricated #DarkEnergyCamera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2313/ - the dazzling central region of this sprawling cloud reveals a pair of infant #stars bursting from their natal cocoons of dust and gas to illuminate the reflection nebula known as Bernes 149