Lagoon Nebula
star-forming region · M8 · in Sagittarius
4,300 light-years from Earth
A cloud of glowing hydrogen about 110 by 50 light-years, where new stars are forming. A lane of dark dust across it gives it its name. On one side of the dark lane the young star Herschel 36 lights up the Hourglass; the young cluster NGC 6530 sits on the other.
- about 4,300 light-years (Gaia measured its cluster) · 110 x 50 light-years
- faintly visible to the naked eye from a dark site
- kind
- nebula
- catalogue
- M8 · NGC 6523 · NGC 6530
- size
- 110 light-years across
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