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570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera Photographs Van Gogh-Esque ‘Starry Night’

570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera Photographs Van Gogh-Esque ‘Starry Night’

Colorful nebula with swirling blue, orange, and brown clouds, stars scattered throughout, and a dense cluster of bright stars in the upper right corner against the dark backdrop of space.

The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) pointed its 570-megapixel CCD image sensor, housed inside the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, at the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, one of the nearest star-forming regions to Earth.

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