Diving into the Lagoon Nebula

Through three giant images, the GigaGalaxy Zoom project reveals the full sky as it appears with the unaided eye from one of the darkest deserts on Earth, then zooms in on a rich region of the Milky Way using an amateur telescope, and finally uses the power of a professional telescope to reveal the details of a famous nebula. In this way, the project links the sky we can all see with the deep, hidden cosmos that astronomers study on a daily basis and allows the viewers to take a breathtaking dive into our Milky Way. The wonderful quality of the images is a testament to the splendour of the night sky at ESOs sites in Chile, which are the most productive astronomical observatories in the world.

The Gigagalaxy website is: http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org
This video can be downloaded in high definition on: http://www.eso.org/gallery/v/Videos/Nebulae/vid-36a-09_FLASH.flv.html

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• ESO
• astronomy
• nebulae
• lagoon
• M8

[forgivensign]

wow i've heard that the lagoon nebula is 100 light years long, which is the same as the milky way no?? so that galaxy in which the lagoon nebula is inmensely huge