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STARRY NIGHT: Talk about high definition! This image of the 100-light-year-wide Lagoon Nebula was taken by European Southern Observatory researchers using a 370-million-pixel camera attached to a 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The Wide Field Imager camera brought the star-studded interstellar cloud into focus from 5000 light-years away. <
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