Lagoon Nebula – This colorful image is taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope

in space •  7 years ago  (edited)

Image credit Lagoon Nebula (Visible-light View)


Don’t make a mistake in identifying this image. This picture is not made by any human, however, it looks like as an artist’s work. This amazing image of Lagoon Nebula is captured by NASA’s Hubble Telescope in space. 

At the center of the photo, a monster young star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun is blasting powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds, carving out a fantasy landscape of ridges, cavities, and mountains of gas and dust.

Image credit Lagoon Nebula (Infrared-light View)


Thank you the people who invented Hubble Telescope. It helps space scientists to explore the area of our universe which is far away from the earth. 

The giant star, called Herschel 36, is bursting out of its natal cocoon of material, unleashing blistering radiation and torrential stellar winds (streams of subatomic particles) that push dust away in curtain-like sheets. This action resembles the Sun bursting through the clouds at the end of an afternoon thunderstorm that showers sheets of rainfall.

Image credit Lagoon Nebula (Visible-light View vs. Infrared View)


This image was taken in the month of Feb from 12 to 18, 2018. 

Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/lagoon-nebula-visible-light-view

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