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Heart of the Lagoon Nebula

author: ESA/Nasa/Novapix

reference: a-neb65-23023

Image Size 300 DPI: 40 * 51 cm

The whole nebula, about 4000 light-years away, is an incredible 55 light-years wide and 20 light-years tall. This image shows only a small part of this turbulent star-formation region, about four light-years across.The observations were taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 between 12 February and 18 February 2018.

Keywords for this photo:

2018 - ASTRONOMY - BLUE GIANT - BOK GLOBULE - DIFFUSE NEBULA - EMISSION NEBULA - HST - HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - LAGOON - M8 - MASSIVE STAR - NEBULA - NGC 6523 - O STAR - POSTER - SAGITTARIUS - STAR -