This picture stood out to me because of its fascinating colors and glow. The Lagoon Nebula is a star forming region in M8. The colors are from a false-coloring of the narrow visible light and the broad spectrum infrared light mixed, both taken by the Gemini South Telescope. The view, spanning 20 light-years across, is commonly known as the Southern Cliff. Many of the bright new stars are Herbig-Haro objects and are produced by jets emitted by young stars while giving off heat in the neighboring dust and clouds. This Lagoon Nebula is located about 5,000 light-years away in the center of our Milky Way near the constellation Sagittarius.
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