Imagine You Had a Camera With a ZillionX Zoom [Video]

This colossal star nest 5000 light years away, inside the Sagittarius constellation, is the center of the Lagoon Nebula . Now, imagine you should operate the Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys like a huge DSLR camera with telephoto lenses.

If that might be possible, here’s how the zooming on this titanic dust and gas cloud can be like. Galaxy ENHANCE!

No LSD needed for this one, Steve.

Of course, that’s not how Hubble works. The video trip is composed with multiple images, merged onto each other in a digital composition program.

The intricate shapes of the nebula are because of the ultraviolet radiation glowing from the baby stars, which disperse the gas and dirt around them as they form. Actually, scientists found here the ” first unambiguous proof that star formation by accretion of matter from the gas cloud is ongoing in this region.” [ NASA Goddard ]

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