more famous residents share the stage with a lesser-known neighbour in this enormous three gigapixel image from ESO窶冱 VLT Survey Telescope (VST). On the right lies the faint, glowing cloud of gas called Sharpless 2-54 the iconic Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) is in the centre and the Omega Nebula (Messier 17) to the left. This cosmic trio makes up just a portion of a vast complex of gas and dust within which new stars are springing to life and illuminating their surroundings.^@^@畤^http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/ ^@<?xpacket begin="・ｿ" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?> <x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="Exempi + XMP Core 5.1.2"> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";>
