Hubble's 28th Birthday Picture: The Lagoon Nebula (IMAGE)

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Hubble's 28th Birthday Picture: The Lagoon Nebula

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To celebrate its 28th anniversary in space the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope took this amazing and colorful image of the Lagoon Nebula. The whole nebula, about 4,000 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.

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NASA, ESA, STScI

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