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The third image of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project is an amazing vista of M8, the Lagoon Nebula, taken with the 67-million-pixel Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The image covers more than one and a half square degree - an area eight times larger than that of the Full Moon - with a total of about 370 million pixels. It is based on images acquired using three different broadband filters (B, V, R) and one narrow-band filter (H-alpha).
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Credit: ESO
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