Zooming in on a new image of the Lagoon Nebula from the VST
This zoom takes the viewer from a wide view of the central parts of the Milky Way deep into a detailed new picture of the Messier 8 star formation region — the Lagoon Nebula — from the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.
Credit:ESO/VPHAS+ team/Digitized Sky Survey 2/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org). Music: movetwo
About the Video
| Id: | eso1403a |
| Release date: | 22 January 2014, 12:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1403 |
| Duration: | 50 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8 |
| Type: | Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation |
| Category: | Nebulae |
