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Lagoon Nebula (NGC 6523 or M8)

3 August 2004

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a pair of half a light-year long interstellar 'twisters' - eerie twisted funnel structures - in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) which lies 5000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.

Credits: A. Caulet (ST-ECF, ESA) and NASA

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