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Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
A Close-Up of the Lagoon's Hourglass
Explanation:
In the central part of the Lagoon Nebula [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] lies the above pictured Hourglass Nebula [ http://seds.lpl.ari…]. In this region of recent star formation, obscuring dark lanes of dust [ http://adsabs.harva…] permeate the red-glowing hydrogen gas. Blocking some of the gas cloud from our view, they chance to create a glowing shape that appears from our vantage point like an hourglass [ http://www.skab.se/…]. In the upper right of this picture [ http://scivax.stsci…] from the Hubble Space Telescope [ http://www.stsci.ed…] is a bright young blue star from the open cluster NGC 6530 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] - visible below center in yesterday's APOD [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. A recent study of the Lagoon Nebula [ http://adsabs.harva…] (M [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]8), has shown that this emission nebula [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] houses large magnetic fields [ http://polaris.phys…] and unusually large dust particles [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…].
Credit and Copyright:
J. Trauger (JPL [ http://www.jpl.nasa…] /Caltech [ http://astro.caltec…]), HST, STSci [ http://www.stsci.ed…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
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Arizona
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Hamilton
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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USERS
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POLARIS
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Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap960821

A Close-Up of the Lagoon's Hourglass
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