Swimming across the Lagoon Nebula
The new image of the Lagoon Nebula, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to celebrate its 28th year in space, shows colourful clouds of gas and dust of this star-formation region in incredible detail.
The image reveals a fantastic landscape of ridges, cavities, and mountains of gas and dust. This dust-and-gas landscape is being sculpted by powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds unleashed by a young star. Located at the centre of the image, the star, known as Herschel 36, is about 200 000 times brighter than our Sun.
Credit:ESA/Hubble, NASA
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About the Video
Id: | heic1808d |
Release date: | 19 April 2018, 16:00 |
Related releases: | heic1808 |
Duration: | 50 s |
Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
Name: | Lagoon Nebula |
Type: | Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation |
Category: | Nebulae |