Emission Nebula NGC 6357
Date: 11 December 2006
Depicts: Emission nebula NGC 6357
Copyright: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble), the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator & Digitized Sky Survey 2
Part of the constellation Scorpius centred on the emission nebula NGC 6357. In the centre of the nebula lies the open star cluster Pismis 24. This image is a colour composite taken by the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), the field of view is 3.8° × 3.3°.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
