Another in my series of Hubble Space Telescope inspired images. This is the Lagoon Nebula.
At the center of the photo, a monster young star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun is blasting powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds, carving out a fantasy landscape of ridges, cavities, and mountains of gas and dust. I took the opportunity to add my own vision of curious "universal" children" being drawn to examine the great light.