Hubble Space Telescope | Take a Tour of NGC 1333 @hubblespacetelescope | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 19 hours ago.
This is a video tour of the nebula NGC 1333 that lies on the edge of a gigantic dark cloud of cold molecular hydrogen laced with soot-like dust. This raw material fuels a firestorm of star birth taking place inside the dusty cocoon. Parts of it have broken through the veil of dust for the Hubble Space Telescope to see nascent stars that are creating a fireworks show.
VIDEO: Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI)
IMAGE PROCESSING: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
MUSIC: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI
This is a video tour of the nebula NGC 1333 that lies on the edge of a gigantic dark cloud of cold molecular hydrogen laced with soot-like dust. This raw material fuels a firestorm of star birth taking place inside the dusty cocoon. Parts of it have broken through the veil of dust for the Hubble Space Telescope to see nascent stars that are creating a fireworks show.
VIDEO: Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI)
IMAGE PROCESSING: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
MUSIC: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI
![Lagoon Nebula: M8 [UltraHD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nMPaYuJg_P4/hqdefault.jpg "Lagoon Nebula: M8 [UltraHD]
This video compares the colorful Hubble Space Telescope visible-light image of the core of the Lagoon Nebula and a Hubble infrared-light view of the same region.
This visible-light image of the central region of the Lagoon nebula reveals a fantasy landscape of ridges, canyons, pillars, and mountains of gas and dust surrounding a very hot newborn star. When the visible view crossfades into an image taken in near-infrared light, the most obvious difference is the abundance of stars that fill the field of view. Most of them are more distant, background stars located behind the nebula itself. However, some of these pinpricks of light are young stars within the Lagoon Nebula. Only the densest of the gas clouds remain in the infrared view.
Video: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Optical and Infrared images: NASA, ESA, and STScI")
