Messier 8 - Lagoon Nebula

OP: Mark_H · Posted June 13, 2024 · 3:40 PM

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The Lagoon Nebula is a stellar nursery, inside this nebula is a massive young star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun. Powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds, create a landscape of ridges, cavities, and mountains of gas and dust.