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From Earth to the Universe: Picture of the day

M66 A beautiful spiral with a well-developed central bulge, M66 also displays large lanes of dust. Many regions of warm hydrogen gas that are being bathed with radiation from clusters of newborn stars are seen throughout the disk of this galaxy. Very active star-formation is most likely also occurring in the central regions. M66 is located in the constellation Leo (the lion). Credit: European Southern Observatory.

In 2009, the "From Earth to the Universe" project brought astronomy to millions of people around the world. Take a tour of just some of the locations in a short video on the FETTU Highlights page.