ESA ESO VLT /VST Image: Omega Nebula or the Swan Nebula

This photo released by the European Southern Observatory shows the first released image of the star-breeding region in the constellation of Sagittarius known as the Omega Nebula or the Swan Nebula taken by a new telescope, the VLT Survey Telescope or VST.

It is the largest telescope of its kind in the world, able to capture in visible light a field of view that is twice as broad as the full Moon. The VST has been built on a mountain top in northern Chile's Atacama Desert, benefiting from viewing conditions in one of the driest and least light-polluted places on Earth.
 
Picture: AFP/ESO