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WISE Catches the Lagoon Nebula in Center of Action
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WISE Catches the Lagoon Nebula in Center of Action

This colorful picture is a mosaic of Messier 8, or the Lagoon nebula, taken by NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. This nebula is composed of clouds of gas and dust in which new stars are forming.

Date
2011-01-06
Photographer / author
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
Collection
JPL
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"WISE Catches the Lagoon Nebula in Center of Action" (2011-01-06). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA13453

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