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WISE Catches the Lagoon Nebula in Center of Action

WISE Catches the Lagoon Nebula in Center of Action
Date taken Thu Jan 06 2011 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer WISE Metadata JSON

Behind the image

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.