Sunken,
Thanks for the post and image. It’s jaw-dropping. One thing rattles around in my little six-volt mind. The narrative tells how the image was composed, of multiple layers of various filtered views captured by earthbound instruments, etc.
I get the impression that if we could thumb a ride on a UFO and zip out there to the actual locale, it wouldn’t actually look much like the image in the article. Am I mistaken? What can you tell us about that?
Thanks for any light you can provide.
My Gamma, the Ex, uncle Ray, and cousin Ultraviolet, could make me see Infrared...
Probably you're 100 percent right -- but at least we'd get a ride in a UFO. ;') Like so much of the sky, NGC 6357 is best enjoyed from a distant, it's a "forest for the trees" thing.