Sculpture Garden of Gas and Dust: Core of the Lagoon Nebula
The NASA/ESA sequence of the video begins with a ground-based view of the night sky, before zooming in on a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope view of a rich star-birth region called the Lagoon Nebula, located in the constellation Sagittarius in the direction of our Milky Way galaxy’s central bulge. The sequence then dissolves to a series of imagined three-dimensional flights past striking structures of this gaseous landscape. Viewers examine dark, dusty clouds silhouetted against a colorful background of luminous gas that has been heated by a massive star. Pillars of dense gas and bow shocks around newborn stars are shaped by the strong winds from the brightest stars. The intense high-energy emission from these same stars creates the glowing ridges of gas in ionization fronts. These features are some of the highlights of this vibrant region where new stars and planets are born.
Video Credits: NASA, ESA, J. Trauger (Jet Propulson Laboratory), G. Bacon, D. Player, J. DePasquale, F. Summers, and Z. Levay (STScI)
Image Credits: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), UNC Chapel Hill's Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes (PROMPT), Star Shadows Remote Observatory (SSRO) and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO).
Music: "Emanating (Hakuu Remix)" by AtYyA
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