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Lagoon nebula imaged by Gemini South Telescope
A portion of the Lagoon nebula imaged using the Gemini South Telescope with the Gemini Multiple-Object Spectrograph. The GMOS enables long- and multi-slit spectroscopy and imaging over a 5.5 square arcminute field of view.
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Learn more in the Gemini news story Gemini Observatory image release. (Date image taken: May 2, 2011; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Dec. 27, 2016)
Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA/Julia I. Arias and Rodolfo H. Barbá, Departamento de Física, Universidad de La Serena (Chile), and ICATE-CONICET (Argentina)
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