Messier 17 or NGC 6618 (Omega Nebula) Wall Art including Frame canvas as seen in 2012 by

as seen in 2012 by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT)

Credit: ESA & Garrelt Mellema (Leiden University

It spans an angle equal to about one third the diameter of the Full Moon

cataloged as IC 5146 and located in the constellation Cygnus

This cloud is known as Lupus 3 and it lies about 600 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion)

Messier 17 or NGC 6618 (Omega Nebula) Wall Art including Frame canvas as seen in 2012 byThree colour composite image of the Omega Nebula (Messier 17, or NGC 6618), based on images obtained with the EMMI instrument on the ESO 3. 58 metre New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory. North is down and East is to the right in the image. It spans an angle equal to about one third the diameter of the Full Moon, corresponding to about 15 light years at the distance of the Omega Nebula. The three filters used are B (blue), V ("visual",