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Date: 02 October 2007 Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope Depicts: NGC 3603 Copyright: NASA, ESA, and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble) Show in archive: true
A wide-field image of the sky around NGC 3603 taken on the ground by the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The glowing clouds of hydrogen gas (seen here in orange) compose a vast emission nebula. The field of view is approximately 2.6 x 2.8 degrees.