Lagoon Nebula (Zoom)

Lagoon Nebula (Visible-light View)

This colorful image, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, celebrates the Earth-orbiting observatory’s 28th anniversary of viewing the heavens, giving us a window seat to the universe’s extraordinary tapestry of stellar birth and destruction. At the center of the photo, a...

Lagoon Nebula (Infrared-light View)

Hubble 28th Anniversary Image in Infrared Shows Promise of Webb Telescope This star-filled image, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in near-infrared wavelengths of light, reveals a very different view of the Lagoon Nebula compared to its visible-light portrait. Making...

Lagoon Nebula (Visible-light View vs. Infrared View)

Two Hubble Views of the Same Stellar Nursery These NASA Hubble Space Telescope images compare two diverse views of the roiling heart of a vast stellar nursery, known as the Lagoon Nebula. The images, one taken in visible and the other in infrared light, celebrate Hubble’s 28th...

Compass Image for Lagoon Nebula (Visible)

Compass Image for Lagoon Nebula (Infrared)

Lagoon Nebula (3D Pans)

This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope views represents an imagined three-dimensional flight across the core of the Lagoon Nebula, a rich star-birth region located in the constellation Sagittarius in the direction of our Milky Way galaxy's central bulge. The viewer sees bright,...

Lagoon Nebula (Zoom and 3D Pans)

This video zooms into the core of a rich star-birth region called the Lagoon Nebula, located in the constellation Sagittarius in the direction of our Milky Way galaxy’s central bulge. The sequence then dissolves to a series of imagined three-dimensional flights past striking...

Lagoon Nebula (Visible to Infrared Dissolve)

This video compares the colorful Hubble Space Telescope visible-light image of the core of the Lagoon Nebula and a Hubble infrared-light view of the same region. The visible-light view reveals a fantasy landscape of ridges, canyons, pillars, and mountains of gas and dust...

Lagoon Nebula (Narrated Zoom)

We begin our journey with a view of the night sky, looking in the direction of our galaxy's central bulge. We zoom into the star clouds and dark dust lanes of the Milky Way. The pink object ahead of us is the Lagoon Nebula, the birthplace of stars. As we get closer, we see a...