Using data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, the team created an incredibly detailed image of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253). The above animation shows the depth of information that is contained in a new portrait of the Sculptor galaxy. While a normal image contains information in just a handful of colours, here we see the Sculptor Galaxy in thousands of them. The above animation shows the depth of information that is contained in a new portrait of the Sculptor galaxy. The researchers observed the Sculptor Galaxy for over 50 hours with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on the VLT to create the detailed map.