May 6, 2011 - Daily Mail
Things have come a long way since the late '60s re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey promised a hippy audience 'the ultimate trip'. Quite what they would have made of an image as psychedelic and, more importantly, as real as this is anyone's guess. The Lagoon Nebula - aka Messier 8 - is among the most striking examples of a stellar nursery in Earth's region of the Milky Way. Its fuzzy glow reveals the type of chaotic environment where new stars are born.
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