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Colorful Lagoon
Featured on July 31, 2015
A newly released image shows the Lagoon Nebula -- clouds of gas and dust surrounding a hot young star. The image combines visible and infrared views from Hubble Space Telescope. Infrared radiation penetrates the dust, providing views of newborn stars that otherwise would be hidden from view. Radiation from the central star, known as Herschel 36, sculpts much of the surrounding nebula, creating whorls and streamers of gas. The Lagoon Nebula is in the constellation Sagittarius. [NASA/ESA/J. Trauger (JPL)]
