Sunday, October 3, 2010

APOD 1.5

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Hello. This one looks sort of like the one I featured last week. But it's so prettttyyy. Meet Messier 8, your average star forming region coming in at about 5,000 lightyears distant from Sagittarius. M8 is commonly known as the Lagoon nebula. This is another image from our good friend Hubble. The dust clouds reflect the bright light emitted from the newborn stars to create this beautiful effect.

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