Zooming in on the Lagoon Nebula
Zooming on an image of the Lagoon Nebula taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This spectacular object is named after the wide lagoon-shaped dust lane that crosses the glowing gas of the nebula. The Lagoon Nebula is around four to five thousand light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius.
Credit:NASA, ESA, ESO/Digitised Sky Survey 2, S. Brunier and S. Guisard. Music: John Dyson (from the album "Darklight")
About the Video
| Id: | heic1015a |
| Release date: | 22 September 2010, 14:00 |
| Related releases: | heic1015 |
| Duration: | 56 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | Lagoon Nebula, M 8 |
| Category: | HD Nebulae |
