This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way,

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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity NGC 6357 nebula. Infrared image showing the vast glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars within the NGC 6357 nebula, which lies in the constellation Scorpio. Imaged as part of the VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey, which is currently scanning the Milky Way in a bid to map the galaxy's structure and explain how it formed.

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