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Into the Depths of the Lagoon Nebula

Into the Depths of the Lagoon Nebula
Date taken Fri Sep 16 2011 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Spitzer Space Telescope Metadata JSON

Behind the image

Swirling dust clouds and bright newborn stars dominate the view in this image of the Lagoon nebula from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. The nebula lies in the general direction of the center of our galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius.