Pink Lagoon | Space Wallpaper

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 11:02 in Astronomy & Space

The VLT Survey Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured this richly detailed space wallpaper of the Lagoon Nebula. This giant cloud of gas and dust is creating intensely bright young stars, and is home to young stellar clusters.

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