
Giant ‘Twisters’ in the Lagoon Nebula
“This Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image reveals a pair of one-half light-year long interstellar ‘twisters’ - eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures - in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) which lies 5,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.”