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Hubble's Lagoon (Oct. 2, 2010)
This image is of M8, or the Lagoon Nebula. As stated in the article, the dust clouds appear as brush strokes on a canvas except in this case, the canvas is nearly three light years wide. The colors map emission from ionized gas and was recorded by the Hubble Telescope's Advanced Camera For Surveys. The Lagoon Nebula is a star forming region about five thousand light years distant from Sagittarius. This sharp and close up view is remarkable because it allows us to see undulating shapes sculpted by the energetic light and winds from the region's new born stars. It becomes apparent to me that the Lagoon nebula is a popular target for earthbound sky gazers, too. This is because it features a prominent dust lane and bright hourglass shape in small telescopes with wider fields of view.
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