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  • NASA, ESA, and STScI

    Hubble flies through the Milky Way's 'raucous star nursery'

    by 
    Steve Dent
    Steve Dent
    04.24.2018

    Over the past 28 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has inspired a generation of astronomers with insanely dramatic views of the universe, but it's hardly done blowing our minds. NASA has unveiled a new fly-through video of the Lagoon Nebula. Located in the center of the Milky Way, NASA calls it a "raucous star nursery" full of dust and star formation with "Herschel 36," a star 200,000 times larger than our sun, at its center.