Giant Twisters in the Lagoon Nebula

This Hubble Telescope snapshot unveils a pair of one-half, light-year-long interstellar "twisters" - eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures (upper left) - in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula (M8) which lies 5,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.

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