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This image of Messier 8 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is both intensely colorful and distinctly surreal. Located in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer), this giant cloud of glowing interstellar gas is a stellar nursery that is also known as the Lagoon Nebula. The massive stars hiding within the heart of the nebula give off enormous amounts of ultraviolet radiation, ionising the gas and causing it to shine colorfully, as well as sculpting the surrounding nebula into strange shapes. The result is an object around four to five thousand light-years away which, on a clear night, is faintly visible to the naked eye. This image depicts a small region in the center of the nebula. This picture was created from exposures taken with the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on Hubble.
