Vaibhav got the Chandra X-ray data to look quite nebulous in its own right. It's nice to see the Spitzer data isolated, and your appropriate colormap choice really highlights these stars and the glowing dust in the central region! ", "This may be one of the more interesting examples of processing. Anyone! This image is really unique amongst astrophotography: it is a one-of-a-kind artistic interpretation of the Lagoon Nebula that still manages to convey a sense of where the stars are and where the gas and dust is. If you are 12 or younger, you will need to have your parent/guardian do this activity with you.
", "Much discussion on how Ivan created this image!
A more aggressive stretch would bring the white point up a bit, but this stretch does give it that moody appearance. Her composition emphasizes the fact that the Lagoon emits mostly in the reddish light of glowing hydrogen gas. ", "I like how Annie used the Invert Colormap tool. The green frame captured the Nebula low in the field of view, but the red and blue frames capture the star field above instead of the Nebula itself. ", "I really like how Claire has left the green and blue-filtered images offset from the red-filtered image of the Lagoon. ", "This shows both the color change in different regions of the nebula which are a result of different ionization states of the elements in the clouds, and a dark cold dust lane cutting across the nebula. A Flight over Jupiter Near the Great Red Spot, UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble, Mars, Pleiades, and Andromeda over Stone Lions, Milky Way over the Pinnacles in Australia, NGC 5643: Nearby Spiral Galaxy from Hubble, Orion Nebula in Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur, GW Orionis: A Star System with Tilted Rings, Biomarker Phosphine Discovered in the Atmosphere of Venus, Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk, TYC 8998 760 1: Multiple Planets around a Sun Like Star, NGC 6814: Grand Design Spiral Galaxy from Hubble, NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula, APOD: 2020 August 13 – Jupiter and Saturn Rising Beyond Alien Throne Rock, Comet and Lightning Beyond Bighorn Mountains, A Flight through the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, APOD: 2020 July 22 – The Structured Tails of Comet NEOWISE, Comet NEOWISE Rising over the Adriatic Sea, M43: Dust, Gas, and Stars in the Orion Nebula, The Galaxy, the Planet, and the Apple Tree, Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 from Hubble, Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse, Reflecting the International Space Station, Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars, Lyrid Meteors from the Constellation Lyra, The Horsehead Nebula in Infrared from Hubble, NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble, M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, Wide Field: Fox Fur, Unicorn, and Christmas Tree, Wolf Rayet Star 124: Stellar Wind Machine, The Slow Dance of Galaxies NGC 5394 and 5395, Moon Corona, Halo, and Arcs over Manitoba, UGC 12591: The Fastest Rotating Galaxy Known, Orion over the Central Bohemian Highlands, The Changing Surface of Fading Betelgeuse, NGC 2392: Double Shelled Planetary Nebula, Apollo 17: A Stereo View from Lunar Orbit, Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn's Ring Plane, A Partial Solar Eclipse Sequence Reflected, Places for OSIRIS REx to Touch Asteroid Bennu, Solstice to Solstice Solargraph Timelapse, A Hotspot Map of Neutron Star J0030s Surface, N63A: Supernova Remnant in Visible and X-ray, Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe, Hoags Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring Galaxy, NGC 3717: A Nearly Sideways Spiral Galaxy, Messier 45: The Daughters of Atlas and Pleione, Curiosity Rover Finds a Clay Cache on Mars, Night Sky Reflections from the Worlds Largest Mirror, All Female Spacewalk Repairs Space Station, A Stellar Jewel Box: Open Cluster NGC 290, NGC 7714: Starburst after Galaxy Collision, MyCn 18: The Engraved Hourglass Planetary Nebula, The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars, Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice, Water Vapor Discovered on Distant Exoplanet, Unusual Signal Suggests Neutron Star Destroyed by Black Hole, Dark Dust and Colorful Clouds near Antares, Animation: Spiral Disk around a Black Hole, Star Forming Region NGC 3582 without Stars, The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT, Robotic Dragonfly Selected to Fly Across Titan, NGC 1566: The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy, Noctilucent Clouds, Reflections, and Silhouettes, Anticrepuscular Rays Converge Opposite the Sun, Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited, Strawberry Moon over the Temple of Poseidon, Milky Way over Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, Unusual Mountain Ahuna Mons on Asteroid Ceres, A Live View from the International Space Station, A Volcano of Fire under a Milky Way of Stars, Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins, Young Star Cluster Trumpler 14 from Hubble, Ash and Lightning above an Icelandic Volcano, The Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray, Meteors, Comet, and Big Dipper over La Palma, A Cosmic Rose: The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros, First Horizon Scale Image of a Black Hole, Abell 370: Galaxy Cluster Gravitational Lens, M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center, The Central Magnetic Field of the Cigar Galaxy, Comet Iwamoto Before Spiral Galaxy NGC 2903, Wide Field View of Great American Eclipse, HESS Telescopes Explore the High Energy Sky, Rocket Launch as Seen from the Space Station, Unexpected Trajectory Interstellar Asteroid Oumuamua, The Cave Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur, The Lagoon Nebula is Stars, Gas, and Dust, Astronaut Exploring: An Apollo 15 Panorama, IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula, Shells of Stars in Elliptical Galaxy PGC 42871, Ultraviolet Earth from an Observatory on the Moon, Hyperion: Largest Known Galaxy Proto Supercluster, Comet 12P Between Rosette and Cone Nebulas, The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star, The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral, The Lonely Neutron Star in Supernova E0102 72.3, The Suns Spectrum with its Missing Colors, Equinox: Analemma over the Callanish Stones, Total Solar Eclipse Shadow from a Balloon, Barnard 228: The Dark Wolf Nebula in Lupus, Neutrino Associated with Distant Blazar Jet, Star Trails and the Bracewell Radio Sundial, Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn's Enceladus, The Case of the Backwards Orbiting Asteroid, Aurora and Manicouagan Crater from the Space Station, Craters and Shadows at the Lunar Terminator, A Plurality of Singularities at the Galactic Center, Meteors, Planes, and a Galaxy over Bryce Canyon, Hubble's Jupiter and the Shrinking Great Red Spot, Flyover of Jupiters North Pole in Infrared, Fortuitous Flash Candidate for the Farthest Star Yet Seen, The Sun Unleashed: Monster Filament in Ultraviolet, The Milky Way over the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations, Moons, Rings, Shadows, Clouds: Saturn (Cassini), Colorful Airglow Bands Surround Milky Way, The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Light and Sound, A Partial Solar Eclipse over Buenos Aires, Ribbons and Pearls of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1398, An Immersive Visualization of the Galactic Center, Unexpected X-Rays from Perseus Galaxy Cluster, SpaceX Rocket Launch Plume over California, NGC 7822: Stars and Dust Pillars in Infrared, NGC 4993: The Galactic Home of an Historic Explosion, GW170817: A Spectacular Multiradiation Merger Event, Milky Way and Zodiacal Light over Australian Pinnacles, The Soul Nebula in Infrared from Herschel, A Total Solar Eclipse Close Up in Real Time, Swirling Around the Eye of Hurricane Irma, A First Glimpse of the Great American Eclipse, Panoramic Eclipse Composite with Star Trails, The Heart Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur, Stars, Gas, and Dust Battle in the Carina Nebula, Density Waves in Saturn's Rings from Cassini, North North Temperate Zone Little Red Spot, Int Ball Drone Activated on the Space Station, Lightning Eclipse from the Planet of the Goats, Celestial Fireworks: Into Star Cluster Westerlund 2, The M81 Galaxy Group through the Integrated Flux Nebula, Artistic Impression: The Surface of TRAPPIST 1f, Eclipse Across America: Path Prediction Video, M89: Elliptical Galaxy with Outer Shells and Plumes, Big Dipper Above and Below Chilean Volcanoes, Galaxy Cluster Gas Creates Hole in Microwave Background, Fast Stars and Rogue Planets in the Orion Nebula, A Dark Winter Sky over Monfrag�e National Park in Spain, A Solar Eclipse with a Beaded Ring of Fire, Four Quasar Images Surround a Galaxy Lens, A Supercell Thunderstorm Cloud Over Montana, An Active Night over the Magellan Telescopes, Cloud Swirls around Southern Jupiter from Juno, Curiosity Surveys Lower Mount Sharp on Mars, Aurora over Jupiter's South Pole from Juno, Arp 240: A Bridge between Spiral Galaxies from Hubble, Verona Rupes: Tallest Known Cliff in the Solar System, Great Rift Near the Center of the Milky Way, Arp 299: Black Holes in Colliding Galaxies, Clouds Near Jupiter's South Pole from Juno, Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, Closest Star has Potentially Habitable Planet, Map of Total Solar Eclipse Path in 2017 August, Deep Magellanic Clouds Image Indicates Collisions, The New World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brightness, Galaxy and Planets Beyond Bristlecone Pines, GW151226: A Second Confirmed Source of Gravitational Radiation, Night on Venus in Infrared from Orbiting Akatsuki, The Supernova and Cepheids of Spiral Galaxy UGC 9391, Stars and Gas of the Running Chicken Nebula, Saturn and Mars visit Milky Way Star Clouds, Webb Telescope Mirror Rises after Assembly, Mercurys Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun, Omega Centauri: The Brightest Globular Star Cluster, The International Space Station over Earth, Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System, Combined Solar Eclipse Corona from Earth and Space, Cancri 55 e: Climate Patterns on a Lava World, NASA's Curiosity Rover at Namib Dune (360 View), Mystery Feature Now Disappears in Titan Lake, Highest, Tallest, and Closest to the Stars, LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes, Advanced LIGO: Gravitational Wave Detectors Upgraded, A Candidate for the Biggest Boom Yet Seen, Stars and Globules in the Running Chicken Nebula, Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud, A Colorful Solar Corona over the Himalayas, The Lagoon Nebula in Hydrogen Sulfur and Oxygen, Earthset from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Geminid Meteors over Xinglong Observatory, SN Refsdal: The First Predicted Supernova Image, A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect, A Blazing Fireball between the Orion Nebula and Rigel, An Unexpected Rocket Plume over San Francisco, Assembly of The International Space Station, The Fractured North Pole of Saturn's Enceladus, Seasonal Streaks Point to Recent Flowing Water on Mars, Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse and Lightning Storm, Milky Way over Bosque Alegre Station in Argentina, Global Ocean Suspected on Saturn's Enceladus, Bright Spots Resolved in Occator Crater on Ceres, Distant Neutrinos Detected Below Antarctic Ice, Triple Conjunction Over Galician National Park, The Milky Way over the Temple of Poseidon, Flyby Image of Saturn's Sponge Moon Hyperion, Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe, Cluster and Starforming Region Westerlund 2, Vesta Trek: A Digital Model of Asteroid Vesta, Galaxy and Cluster Create Four Images of Distant Supernova, The Rosette Nebula in Hydrogen and Oxygen, The Milky Way Over the Arizona Toadstools, Dark Craters and Bright Spots Revealed on Asteroid Ceres, Hubble 25th Anniversary: Pillars of Creation, 100 Million Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy, A Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Christmas Tree, NASA Web
Vaibhav got the Chandra X-ray data to look quite nebulous in its own right. It's nice to see the Spitzer data isolated, and your appropriate colormap choice really highlights these stars and the glowing dust in the central region! ", "This may be one of the more interesting examples of processing. Anyone! This image is really unique amongst astrophotography: it is a one-of-a-kind artistic interpretation of the Lagoon Nebula that still manages to convey a sense of where the stars are and where the gas and dust is. If you are 12 or younger, you will need to have your parent/guardian do this activity with you.
", "Much discussion on how Ivan created this image!
A more aggressive stretch would bring the white point up a bit, but this stretch does give it that moody appearance. Her composition emphasizes the fact that the Lagoon emits mostly in the reddish light of glowing hydrogen gas. ", "I like how Annie used the Invert Colormap tool. The green frame captured the Nebula low in the field of view, but the red and blue frames capture the star field above instead of the Nebula itself. ", "I really like how Claire has left the green and blue-filtered images offset from the red-filtered image of the Lagoon. ", "This shows both the color change in different regions of the nebula which are a result of different ionization states of the elements in the clouds, and a dark cold dust lane cutting across the nebula. A Flight over Jupiter Near the Great Red Spot, UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble, Mars, Pleiades, and Andromeda over Stone Lions, Milky Way over the Pinnacles in Australia, NGC 5643: Nearby Spiral Galaxy from Hubble, Orion Nebula in Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur, GW Orionis: A Star System with Tilted Rings, Biomarker Phosphine Discovered in the Atmosphere of Venus, Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk, TYC 8998 760 1: Multiple Planets around a Sun Like Star, NGC 6814: Grand Design Spiral Galaxy from Hubble, NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula, APOD: 2020 August 13 – Jupiter and Saturn Rising Beyond Alien Throne Rock, Comet and Lightning Beyond Bighorn Mountains, A Flight through the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, APOD: 2020 July 22 – The Structured Tails of Comet NEOWISE, Comet NEOWISE Rising over the Adriatic Sea, M43: Dust, Gas, and Stars in the Orion Nebula, The Galaxy, the Planet, and the Apple Tree, Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 from Hubble, Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse, Reflecting the International Space Station, Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars, Lyrid Meteors from the Constellation Lyra, The Horsehead Nebula in Infrared from Hubble, NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble, M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, Wide Field: Fox Fur, Unicorn, and Christmas Tree, Wolf Rayet Star 124: Stellar Wind Machine, The Slow Dance of Galaxies NGC 5394 and 5395, Moon Corona, Halo, and Arcs over Manitoba, UGC 12591: The Fastest Rotating Galaxy Known, Orion over the Central Bohemian Highlands, The Changing Surface of Fading Betelgeuse, NGC 2392: Double Shelled Planetary Nebula, Apollo 17: A Stereo View from Lunar Orbit, Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn's Ring Plane, A Partial Solar Eclipse Sequence Reflected, Places for OSIRIS REx to Touch Asteroid Bennu, Solstice to Solstice Solargraph Timelapse, A Hotspot Map of Neutron Star J0030s Surface, N63A: Supernova Remnant in Visible and X-ray, Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe, Hoags Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring Galaxy, NGC 3717: A Nearly Sideways Spiral Galaxy, Messier 45: The Daughters of Atlas and Pleione, Curiosity Rover Finds a Clay Cache on Mars, Night Sky Reflections from the Worlds Largest Mirror, All Female Spacewalk Repairs Space Station, A Stellar Jewel Box: Open Cluster NGC 290, NGC 7714: Starburst after Galaxy Collision, MyCn 18: The Engraved Hourglass Planetary Nebula, The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars, Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice, Water Vapor Discovered on Distant Exoplanet, Unusual Signal Suggests Neutron Star Destroyed by Black Hole, Dark Dust and Colorful Clouds near Antares, Animation: Spiral Disk around a Black Hole, Star Forming Region NGC 3582 without Stars, The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT, Robotic Dragonfly Selected to Fly Across Titan, NGC 1566: The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy, Noctilucent Clouds, Reflections, and Silhouettes, Anticrepuscular Rays Converge Opposite the Sun, Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited, Strawberry Moon over the Temple of Poseidon, Milky Way over Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, Unusual Mountain Ahuna Mons on Asteroid Ceres, A Live View from the International Space Station, A Volcano of Fire under a Milky Way of Stars, Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins, Young Star Cluster Trumpler 14 from Hubble, Ash and Lightning above an Icelandic Volcano, The Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray, Meteors, Comet, and Big Dipper over La Palma, A Cosmic Rose: The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros, First Horizon Scale Image of a Black Hole, Abell 370: Galaxy Cluster Gravitational Lens, M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center, The Central Magnetic Field of the Cigar Galaxy, Comet Iwamoto Before Spiral Galaxy NGC 2903, Wide Field View of Great American Eclipse, HESS Telescopes Explore the High Energy Sky, Rocket Launch as Seen from the Space Station, Unexpected Trajectory Interstellar Asteroid Oumuamua, The Cave Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur, The Lagoon Nebula is Stars, Gas, and Dust, Astronaut Exploring: An Apollo 15 Panorama, IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula, Shells of Stars in Elliptical Galaxy PGC 42871, Ultraviolet Earth from an Observatory on the Moon, Hyperion: Largest Known Galaxy Proto Supercluster, Comet 12P Between Rosette and Cone Nebulas, The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star, The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral, The Lonely Neutron Star in Supernova E0102 72.3, The Suns Spectrum with its Missing Colors, Equinox: Analemma over the Callanish Stones, Total Solar Eclipse Shadow from a Balloon, Barnard 228: The Dark Wolf Nebula in Lupus, Neutrino Associated with Distant Blazar Jet, Star Trails and the Bracewell Radio Sundial, Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn's Enceladus, The Case of the Backwards Orbiting Asteroid, Aurora and Manicouagan Crater from the Space Station, Craters and Shadows at the Lunar Terminator, A Plurality of Singularities at the Galactic Center, Meteors, Planes, and a Galaxy over Bryce Canyon, Hubble's Jupiter and the Shrinking Great Red Spot, Flyover of Jupiters North Pole in Infrared, Fortuitous Flash Candidate for the Farthest Star Yet Seen, The Sun Unleashed: Monster Filament in Ultraviolet, The Milky Way over the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations, Moons, Rings, Shadows, Clouds: Saturn (Cassini), Colorful Airglow Bands Surround Milky Way, The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Light and Sound, A Partial Solar Eclipse over Buenos Aires, Ribbons and Pearls of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1398, An Immersive Visualization of the Galactic Center, Unexpected X-Rays from Perseus Galaxy Cluster, SpaceX Rocket Launch Plume over California, NGC 7822: Stars and Dust Pillars in Infrared, NGC 4993: The Galactic Home of an Historic Explosion, GW170817: A Spectacular Multiradiation Merger Event, Milky Way and Zodiacal Light over Australian Pinnacles, The Soul Nebula in Infrared from Herschel, A Total Solar Eclipse Close Up in Real Time, Swirling Around the Eye of Hurricane Irma, A First Glimpse of the Great American Eclipse, Panoramic Eclipse Composite with Star Trails, The Heart Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur, Stars, Gas, and Dust Battle in the Carina Nebula, Density Waves in Saturn's Rings from Cassini, North North Temperate Zone Little Red Spot, Int Ball Drone Activated on the Space Station, Lightning Eclipse from the Planet of the Goats, Celestial Fireworks: Into Star Cluster Westerlund 2, The M81 Galaxy Group through the Integrated Flux Nebula, Artistic Impression: The Surface of TRAPPIST 1f, Eclipse Across America: Path Prediction Video, M89: Elliptical Galaxy with Outer Shells and Plumes, Big Dipper Above and Below Chilean Volcanoes, Galaxy Cluster Gas Creates Hole in Microwave Background, Fast Stars and Rogue Planets in the Orion Nebula, A Dark Winter Sky over Monfrag�e National Park in Spain, A Solar Eclipse with a Beaded Ring of Fire, Four Quasar Images Surround a Galaxy Lens, A Supercell Thunderstorm Cloud Over Montana, An Active Night over the Magellan Telescopes, Cloud Swirls around Southern Jupiter from Juno, Curiosity Surveys Lower Mount Sharp on Mars, Aurora over Jupiter's South Pole from Juno, Arp 240: A Bridge between Spiral Galaxies from Hubble, Verona Rupes: Tallest Known Cliff in the Solar System, Great Rift Near the Center of the Milky Way, Arp 299: Black Holes in Colliding Galaxies, Clouds Near Jupiter's South Pole from Juno, Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, Closest Star has Potentially Habitable Planet, Map of Total Solar Eclipse Path in 2017 August, Deep Magellanic Clouds Image Indicates Collisions, The New World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brightness, Galaxy and Planets Beyond Bristlecone Pines, GW151226: A Second Confirmed Source of Gravitational Radiation, Night on Venus in Infrared from Orbiting Akatsuki, The Supernova and Cepheids of Spiral Galaxy UGC 9391, Stars and Gas of the Running Chicken Nebula, Saturn and Mars visit Milky Way Star Clouds, Webb Telescope Mirror Rises after Assembly, Mercurys Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun, Omega Centauri: The Brightest Globular Star Cluster, The International Space Station over Earth, Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System, Combined Solar Eclipse Corona from Earth and Space, Cancri 55 e: Climate Patterns on a Lava World, NASA's Curiosity Rover at Namib Dune (360 View), Mystery Feature Now Disappears in Titan Lake, Highest, Tallest, and Closest to the Stars, LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes, Advanced LIGO: Gravitational Wave Detectors Upgraded, A Candidate for the Biggest Boom Yet Seen, Stars and Globules in the Running Chicken Nebula, Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud, A Colorful Solar Corona over the Himalayas, The Lagoon Nebula in Hydrogen Sulfur and Oxygen, Earthset from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Geminid Meteors over Xinglong Observatory, SN Refsdal: The First Predicted Supernova Image, A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect, A Blazing Fireball between the Orion Nebula and Rigel, An Unexpected Rocket Plume over San Francisco, Assembly of The International Space Station, The Fractured North Pole of Saturn's Enceladus, Seasonal Streaks Point to Recent Flowing Water on Mars, Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse and Lightning Storm, Milky Way over Bosque Alegre Station in Argentina, Global Ocean Suspected on Saturn's Enceladus, Bright Spots Resolved in Occator Crater on Ceres, Distant Neutrinos Detected Below Antarctic Ice, Triple Conjunction Over Galician National Park, The Milky Way over the Temple of Poseidon, Flyby Image of Saturn's Sponge Moon Hyperion, Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe, Cluster and Starforming Region Westerlund 2, Vesta Trek: A Digital Model of Asteroid Vesta, Galaxy and Cluster Create Four Images of Distant Supernova, The Rosette Nebula in Hydrogen and Oxygen, The Milky Way Over the Arizona Toadstools, Dark Craters and Bright Spots Revealed on Asteroid Ceres, Hubble 25th Anniversary: Pillars of Creation, 100 Million Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy, A Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Christmas Tree, NASA Web
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Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Comparing this to an image of the Moon would show just how big this object is in our skies, but unseen by most night sky enthusiasts! Thanks to everyone who participated in the Winter 2018 challenge! Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. The Chandra data reveals massive stars in the central region of the nebula that aren’t visible to optical telescopes behind dust and gas. I love how ominous the Lagoon looks in this image. Perhaps the result of Pop Art influences? Georges Seurat would be proud of Jesus’s use of artistic license to display scientific data!
NASA's Astrophoto Standout Entries. ", "This is just cool. HCAstro 2017This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. From all the submitted processed images, these were selected as a standout entry and NASA scientists gave feedback on the images. low pixel value) areas appear bright. Visually stunning!
Vaibhav got the Chandra X-ray data to look quite nebulous in its own right. It's nice to see the Spitzer data isolated, and your appropriate colormap choice really highlights these stars and the glowing dust in the central region! ", "This may be one of the more interesting examples of processing. Anyone! This image is really unique amongst astrophotography: it is a one-of-a-kind artistic interpretation of the Lagoon Nebula that still manages to convey a sense of where the stars are and where the gas and dust is. If you are 12 or younger, you will need to have your parent/guardian do this activity with you.
", "Much discussion on how Ivan created this image!
A more aggressive stretch would bring the white point up a bit, but this stretch does give it that moody appearance. Her composition emphasizes the fact that the Lagoon emits mostly in the reddish light of glowing hydrogen gas. ", "I like how Annie used the Invert Colormap tool. The green frame captured the Nebula low in the field of view, but the red and blue frames capture the star field above instead of the Nebula itself. ", "I really like how Claire has left the green and blue-filtered images offset from the red-filtered image of the Lagoon. ", "This shows both the color change in different regions of the nebula which are a result of different ionization states of the elements in the clouds, and a dark cold dust lane cutting across the nebula. A Flight over Jupiter Near the Great Red Spot, UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble, Mars, Pleiades, and Andromeda over Stone Lions, Milky Way over the Pinnacles in Australia, NGC 5643: Nearby Spiral Galaxy from Hubble, Orion Nebula in Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur, GW Orionis: A Star System with Tilted Rings, Biomarker Phosphine Discovered in the Atmosphere of Venus, Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk, TYC 8998 760 1: Multiple Planets around a Sun Like Star, NGC 6814: Grand Design Spiral Galaxy from Hubble, NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula, APOD: 2020 August 13 – Jupiter and Saturn Rising Beyond Alien Throne Rock, Comet and Lightning Beyond Bighorn Mountains, A Flight through the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, APOD: 2020 July 22 – The Structured Tails of Comet NEOWISE, Comet NEOWISE Rising over the Adriatic Sea, M43: Dust, Gas, and Stars in the Orion Nebula, The Galaxy, the Planet, and the Apple Tree, Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 from Hubble, Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse, Reflecting the International Space Station, Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars, Lyrid Meteors from the Constellation Lyra, The Horsehead Nebula in Infrared from Hubble, NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble, M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, Wide Field: Fox Fur, Unicorn, and Christmas Tree, Wolf Rayet Star 124: Stellar Wind Machine, The Slow Dance of Galaxies NGC 5394 and 5395, Moon Corona, Halo, and Arcs over Manitoba, UGC 12591: The Fastest Rotating Galaxy Known, Orion over the Central Bohemian Highlands, The Changing Surface of Fading Betelgeuse, NGC 2392: Double Shelled Planetary Nebula, Apollo 17: A Stereo View from Lunar Orbit, Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturn's Ring Plane, A Partial Solar Eclipse Sequence Reflected, Places for OSIRIS REx to Touch Asteroid Bennu, Solstice to Solstice Solargraph Timelapse, A Hotspot Map of Neutron Star J0030s Surface, N63A: Supernova Remnant in Visible and X-ray, Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe, Hoags Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring Galaxy, NGC 3717: A Nearly Sideways Spiral Galaxy, Messier 45: The Daughters of Atlas and Pleione, Curiosity Rover Finds a Clay Cache on Mars, Night Sky Reflections from the Worlds Largest Mirror, All Female Spacewalk Repairs Space Station, A Stellar Jewel Box: Open Cluster NGC 290, NGC 7714: Starburst after Galaxy Collision, MyCn 18: The Engraved Hourglass Planetary Nebula, The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars, Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice, Water Vapor Discovered on Distant Exoplanet, Unusual Signal Suggests Neutron Star Destroyed by Black Hole, Dark Dust and Colorful Clouds near Antares, Animation: Spiral Disk around a Black Hole, Star Forming Region NGC 3582 without Stars, The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT, Robotic Dragonfly Selected to Fly Across Titan, NGC 1566: The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy, Noctilucent Clouds, Reflections, and Silhouettes, Anticrepuscular Rays Converge Opposite the Sun, Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited, Strawberry Moon over the Temple of Poseidon, Milky Way over Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, Unusual Mountain Ahuna Mons on Asteroid Ceres, A Live View from the International Space Station, A Volcano of Fire under a Milky Way of Stars, Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins, Young Star Cluster Trumpler 14 from Hubble, Ash and Lightning above an Icelandic Volcano, The Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray, Meteors, Comet, and Big Dipper over La Palma, A Cosmic Rose: The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros, First Horizon Scale Image of a Black Hole, Abell 370: Galaxy Cluster Gravitational Lens, M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center, The Central Magnetic Field of the Cigar Galaxy, Comet Iwamoto Before Spiral Galaxy NGC 2903, Wide Field View of Great American Eclipse, HESS Telescopes Explore the High Energy Sky, Rocket Launch as Seen from the Space Station, Unexpected Trajectory Interstellar Asteroid Oumuamua, The Cave Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur, The Lagoon Nebula is Stars, Gas, and Dust, Astronaut Exploring: An Apollo 15 Panorama, IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula, Shells of Stars in Elliptical Galaxy PGC 42871, Ultraviolet Earth from an Observatory on the Moon, Hyperion: Largest Known Galaxy Proto Supercluster, Comet 12P Between Rosette and Cone Nebulas, The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star, The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral, The Lonely Neutron Star in Supernova E0102 72.3, The Suns Spectrum with its Missing Colors, Equinox: Analemma over the Callanish Stones, Total Solar Eclipse Shadow from a Balloon, Barnard 228: The Dark Wolf Nebula in Lupus, Neutrino Associated with Distant Blazar Jet, Star Trails and the Bracewell Radio Sundial, Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn's Enceladus, The Case of the Backwards Orbiting Asteroid, Aurora and Manicouagan Crater from the Space Station, Craters and Shadows at the Lunar Terminator, A Plurality of Singularities at the Galactic Center, Meteors, Planes, and a Galaxy over Bryce Canyon, Hubble's Jupiter and the Shrinking Great Red Spot, Flyover of Jupiters North Pole in Infrared, Fortuitous Flash Candidate for the Farthest Star Yet Seen, The Sun Unleashed: Monster Filament in Ultraviolet, The Milky Way over the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations, Moons, Rings, Shadows, Clouds: Saturn (Cassini), Colorful Airglow Bands Surround Milky Way, The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Light and Sound, A Partial Solar Eclipse over Buenos Aires, Ribbons and Pearls of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1398, An Immersive Visualization of the Galactic Center, Unexpected X-Rays from Perseus Galaxy Cluster, SpaceX Rocket Launch Plume over California, NGC 7822: Stars and Dust Pillars in Infrared, NGC 4993: The Galactic Home of an Historic Explosion, GW170817: A Spectacular Multiradiation Merger Event, Milky Way and Zodiacal Light over Australian Pinnacles, The Soul Nebula in Infrared from Herschel, A Total Solar Eclipse Close Up in Real Time, Swirling Around the Eye of Hurricane Irma, A First Glimpse of the Great American Eclipse, Panoramic Eclipse Composite with Star Trails, The Heart Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur, Stars, Gas, and Dust Battle in the Carina Nebula, Density Waves in Saturn's Rings from Cassini, North North Temperate Zone Little Red Spot, Int Ball Drone Activated on the Space Station, Lightning Eclipse from the Planet of the Goats, Celestial Fireworks: Into Star Cluster Westerlund 2, The M81 Galaxy Group through the Integrated Flux Nebula, Artistic Impression: The Surface of TRAPPIST 1f, Eclipse Across America: Path Prediction Video, M89: Elliptical Galaxy with Outer Shells and Plumes, Big Dipper Above and Below Chilean Volcanoes, Galaxy Cluster Gas Creates Hole in Microwave Background, Fast Stars and Rogue Planets in the Orion Nebula, A Dark Winter Sky over Monfrag�e National Park in Spain, A Solar Eclipse with a Beaded Ring of Fire, Four Quasar Images Surround a Galaxy Lens, A Supercell Thunderstorm Cloud Over Montana, An Active Night over the Magellan Telescopes, Cloud Swirls around Southern Jupiter from Juno, Curiosity Surveys Lower Mount Sharp on Mars, Aurora over Jupiter's South Pole from Juno, Arp 240: A Bridge between Spiral Galaxies from Hubble, Verona Rupes: Tallest Known Cliff in the Solar System, Great Rift Near the Center of the Milky Way, Arp 299: Black Holes in Colliding Galaxies, Clouds Near Jupiter's South Pole from Juno, Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, Closest Star has Potentially Habitable Planet, Map of Total Solar Eclipse Path in 2017 August, Deep Magellanic Clouds Image Indicates Collisions, The New World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brightness, Galaxy and Planets Beyond Bristlecone Pines, GW151226: A Second Confirmed Source of Gravitational Radiation, Night on Venus in Infrared from Orbiting Akatsuki, The Supernova and Cepheids of Spiral Galaxy UGC 9391, Stars and Gas of the Running Chicken Nebula, Saturn and Mars visit Milky Way Star Clouds, Webb Telescope Mirror Rises after Assembly, Mercurys Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun, Omega Centauri: The Brightest Globular Star Cluster, The International Space Station over Earth, Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System, Combined Solar Eclipse Corona from Earth and Space, Cancri 55 e: Climate Patterns on a Lava World, NASA's Curiosity Rover at Namib Dune (360 View), Mystery Feature Now Disappears in Titan Lake, Highest, Tallest, and Closest to the Stars, LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes, Advanced LIGO: Gravitational Wave Detectors Upgraded, A Candidate for the Biggest Boom Yet Seen, Stars and Globules in the Running Chicken Nebula, Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud, A Colorful Solar Corona over the Himalayas, The Lagoon Nebula in Hydrogen Sulfur and Oxygen, Earthset from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Geminid Meteors over Xinglong Observatory, SN Refsdal: The First Predicted Supernova Image, A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect, A Blazing Fireball between the Orion Nebula and Rigel, An Unexpected Rocket Plume over San Francisco, Assembly of The International Space Station, The Fractured North Pole of Saturn's Enceladus, Seasonal Streaks Point to Recent Flowing Water on Mars, Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse and Lightning Storm, Milky Way over Bosque Alegre Station in Argentina, Global Ocean Suspected on Saturn's Enceladus, Bright Spots Resolved in Occator Crater on Ceres, Distant Neutrinos Detected Below Antarctic Ice, Triple Conjunction Over Galician National Park, The Milky Way over the Temple of Poseidon, Flyby Image of Saturn's Sponge Moon Hyperion, Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe, Cluster and Starforming Region Westerlund 2, Vesta Trek: A Digital Model of Asteroid Vesta, Galaxy and Cluster Create Four Images of Distant Supernova, The Rosette Nebula in Hydrogen and Oxygen, The Milky Way Over the Arizona Toadstools, Dark Craters and Bright Spots Revealed on Asteroid Ceres, Hubble 25th Anniversary: Pillars of Creation, 100 Million Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy, A Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Christmas Tree, NASA Web
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