article_snippet: An amazing image showing a collection of stars and nebulae is the most detailed view of this part of the sky, the southern constellation of Ara (The Altar), ever taken.
article_snippet: This image, taken by OmegaCAM on the VLT Survey Telescope at the European Southern Observatory, shows a section of the Ara OB1 stellar association.
article_snippet: these stars are spread over a region known as the Ara OB1 association, which continues outside the limits of this picture - and is a region of similar hot and bright stars that formed at the same time.
article_snippet: the image was taken using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), shownn, at the European Southern Observatory’s  Paranal Observatory in Chile .
article_snippet: the image is the most detailed view of this part of the sky so far, in the southern constellation of Ara (The Altar), shown here .
article_snippet: the image was created by combining more than 500 individual pictures taken through four colour filters with the VLT Survey Telescope.
highlights_snippet: A telescope array in Chile has captured the most detailed image ever made of a portion of the southern sky .
  