Lagoon Nebula is a photograph by Jennifer Rondinelli Reilly - Fine Art Photography which was uploaded on May 1st, 2014.
Lagoon Nebula
I have given this high resolution deep space Hubble photograph a special fine art treatment that turns an ordinary telescope image into a... more
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Lagoon Nebula
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Jennifer Rondinelli Reilly - Fine Art Photography
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Swirling dust clouds and bright newborn stars dominate the view in this image of the “Lagoon nebula” from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Also known as Messier 8 and NGC 6523, astronomers estimate it to be between 4000 and 6000 light years away, lying in the general direction of the center of our galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius.
The Lagoon nebula was first noted by the astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil in 1747, and a few decades later became the 8th entry in Charles Messier’s famous catalog of nebulae.
The glowing “waters” of the Lagoon, as seen in visible light, are really pools of hot gas surrounding the massive, young stars found here.
The various columns of dust all seem to point inwards towards the central depths of the Lagoon. These structures are being sculpted by the intense glow of giant, young stars found at the nebula’s core. Within these clouds of dust and gas, a new generation of stars is forming.
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May 1st, 2014