Tornado-like structures at the heart of Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8).
This is a public domain image from the GRIN Great Images In NASA Collection within the NASA image archive.
The tornado-like structures in this colorful image are at the heart of Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8). This image would make an excellent addition to a background texture collage, or could function as a ready-to-use background image. The colors are vibrant, and the imagery is twisted and eerie.
This image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope – NASA. NASA is an Agency of the United States Government, therefore this image is in the public domain.
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03.15.10
It’s an image of the space with a bright pink star at the bottom corner taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The colors are stunning, forming shapes of clouds and tornados, mixing blue and green all the way to yellow and orange. You can definetely perceive the great brightness of the bottom star, in contrast to the more calm colors of the other shapes. It atracts the eye, almost as if it were a man-made drawing, but soon you realize it is nature in its course. The mixture of colors can remember an oil stain, and this remind me of the passage, “as above, so below”, remembering me of the fractal aspect of nature.
My first thought when I saw the image was of great awe. Imagining the greatness of space, at the same time as realizing the insignificance of man. How nature can create great things with such complexity, and yet make it such beautiful and admiring.
This is a great picture, it can hold you for hours just admiring, analyzing it, imaging forms out of colors and darkness. Wondering what is out there, that man is yet to discover, and maybe you will never get to know.
03.27.10
Lagoon nebula is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation sagittarius. it is located about 5000 light years from the earth. Its center structure is known as hourglass nebula. hourglass nebula is a bright knot of gases. It is the home for many planets,young stars and hot gases. First evidence of this nebula was discovered in 1747. Nebulas are of protoplanetary, supernova, planetary, dark etc. NGC 6523, is named “Lagoon” for the band of dust seen to the left of the open cluster’s center. We cant look at our own galactic center. So is what, we are missing the beautiful picture of our own galaxy. The above picture is made of three colors. Fascinating part of this substance is always a natural wonder and an attracting feature which attracts people towards space science. Inter related substance is the vista. It is known for its beauty. It also includes a funnel-like or tornado-like structure caused by a hot O-type star that pours out ultraviolet light, heating and ionizing gases on the surface of the nebula. nowadays advertisers use this nebula images for attracting the people. which means there is a fascinating taste in everyone’s mind naturally.