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The Lagoon Nebula (catalogued as Messier 8 or M8, NGC 6523, Sharpless 25, RCW 146, and Gum 72) is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius.It is classified as an emission nebula and has an H II region.
NGC 6530 is a young [8] open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Sagittarius, located some 4,300 light years from the Sun. [3] It exists within the H II region known as the Lagoon Nebula, or Messier 8, [9] and spans an angular diameter of 14.0′. [5]
Original – The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured this richly detailed new image of the Lagoon Nebula. Reason Articles in which this image appears Lagoon Nebula and Astrophysical plasma FP category for this image Creator ESO/VPHAS+ team, uploaded by Jmencisom. Support as nominator--ArionEstar 20:35 ...
English: This video zooms through three giant images, the full sky as it appears with the unaided eye from one of the darkest deserts on Earth, then zooms in on a rich region of the Milky Way using an amateur telescope, and finally uses the power of a professional telescope to reveal the details of a famous nebula.
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9 Sgr is the brightest star in the image, just left of the intense Hourglass Nebula core of the Lagoon Nebula. The scattering of stars on the left is NGC 6530. 9 Sgr is a naked eye star lying in the direction of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8), very close to the central condensation of the Hourglass Nebula around Herschel 36. It was not ...
An image of the "Blue Lagoon" is seen on the left (below the Flame Nebula picture) — it is an infrared image taken as part of the VVV survey. It shows the stellar nursery called the Lagoon Nebula (also known as Messier 8), which lies about 4000–5000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer). [14]