Select Lagoon Nebula… ENHANCE! [Video]

This colossal star nest 5000 light years away, within the Sagittarius constellation, is the guts of the Lagoon Nebula . Now, imagine it’s essential to operate the Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys like a large DSLR camera with telephoto lenses.

If that may be possible, it’s how the zooming on this titanic dust and gas cloud can be like:

No LSD needed for this one, Steve.

The intricate shapes of the nebula are as a result of the ultraviolet radiation glowing from the child stars, which disperse the gas and mud around them as they form. Really, 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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