CosmoView Episode 27: An Astronomer’s Menagerie
Channel: NOIRLabAstro
Date: 2021-04-29

An image of the dwarf galaxy Sextans B, taken with the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, contains a menagerie of astronomical objects, from bright stars in the foreground to distant galaxies hiding in the background. The galaxy itself contains both the cradles and the graves of stars, hosting star-forming regions as well as stellar death shrouds.

More information and download options: http://noirlab.edu/public/videos/noirlab2115a/

Credit:
Images and videos: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, E. Slawik, P. Marenfeld

Data obtained and processed by: P. Massey (Lowell Obs.), G. Jacoby, K. Olsen, & C. Smith (AURA/NSF) 

Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab)

Music: Stellardrone - Airglow