To celebrate its 28th anniversary in space the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope took this amazing and colourful image of the Lagoon Nebula. 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.This stunning nebula was first catalogued in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna, who sought to record nebulous objects in the night sky so they would not be mistaken for comets. Since Hodierna’s observations, the Lagoon Nebula has been photographed and analysed by many telescopes and astronomers all over the world.The observations were taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 between 12 February and 18 February 2018.
Id: heic1808aType: ObservationRelease date: 19 April 2018, 16:00
Name: Lagoon NebulaType: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star FormationDistance: 4000 light yearsConstellation: SagittariusCategory: Anniversary Nebulae
Band Wavelength TelescopeOpticalOIII 502 nm Hubble Space TelescopeWFC3OpticalH-alpha 656 nm Hubble Space TelescopeWFC3OpticalNII 658 nm Hubble Space TelescopeWFC3Opticaly 547 nm Hubble Space TelescopeWFC3Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI
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