ESO and Medusa

When we have the best telescopes at our disposal, we can take the most detailed data, and ultimately gain the most valuable science.  Being able to take a closer look, to resolve the finer details, to see what lies within, gives us the ability to understand the present, peer into the past, and ultimately, predict the future.  The ESO’s Very Large Telescope continuously brings in fantastic images of objects that we have studied previously, but weren’t quite sure about.  This week we saw another prime example of this. The Medusa Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation Gemini.  It...