The Lagoon Nebula: To celebrate its 28th anniversary in space the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope took this amazing and colourful image of the Lagoon Nebula. Butterfly emerges from stellar demise ...

Within the Lagoon Nebula lies the star cluster NGC-6530, made up of a few thousand stars. Young stars twinkle within a rainbow curtain of dust and gas in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space ...

A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Lagoon Nebula, which is about 4,000 light-years away. It was taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 in February. The image was released to celebrate the ...

NASA and the European Space Agency are celebrating with a batch of stunning photos of the Lagoon Nebula, in all of its swirling, explosive beauty. The Hubble "has offered a new view of the ...

This year, the star of the anniversary show is the Lagoon Nebula, a colossal hub of star birth that's 55 light-years wide and 20 light-years tall. [Celestial Photos: Hubble Space Telescope's ...

The agency released a Hubble snapshot of the Lagoon Nebula, which sits 4,000 light-years away and is visible "as merely a smudge of light with a bright core" to viewers with binoculars on Earth.

Hubble observed the Lagoon Nebula not only in visible light but also at infrared wavelengths. While the observations in the optical allow astronomers to study the gas in full detail, the infrared ...

April 19 (UPI) --The Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 28th anniversary with a double portrait of the Lagoon Nebula, a giant, oft-photographed interstellar cloud. The juxtaposed images ...

The Lagoon Nebula is a vast, 100-light-year-wide star factory. It’s a huge cloud of gas and dust, and inside of it stars are born out of that material. It’s very active, and has been for a ...

Breaking waves in the Lagoon Nebula Date: September 22, 2010 Source: European Space Agency Summary: A spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the heart of the Lagoon Nebula ...