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Heart of the Lagoon Nebula

by

ESA/Nasa/Novapix

Reference

a-neb65-23023

Date

2018-05-12

The whole nebula, about 4000 light-years away, is an incredible 55 light-years wide and 20 light-years tall. This image shows only a small part of this turbulent star-formation region, about four light-years across.The observations were taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 between 12 February and 18 February 2018.