... Undulating bright ridges and dusty clouds cross this close-up of the nearby star forming region M8, also known as the Lagoon Nebula. ... What's that bright orange dot above the large telescope on the right? ... The celestial grouping is seen here just before sunrise on May 5, from a beach near Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... Fifty years ago, near the dawn of the space age, NASA controllers "lit the candle" and sent Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard arcing into space atop a Redstone rocket. ...