Lagoon Nebula
FYNebulas
FYNebulas
Lagoon Nebula
Trifid & Lagoon
Lagoon Nebula
Ring of Fire: M8 the Lagoon Nebula in Mapped Color - March 2011 (by Joseph Brimacombe)
WISE Catches the Lagoon Nebula in Center of Action
This colorful mosaic shows the Lagoon nebula, composed of clouds of gas and dust in which new stars are forming. Also known as Messier 8 (M8), the Lagoon nebula is seen here as a large circular cloud in the center of the image, surrounded by innumerable stars.
Astronomers have identified several different parts of the Lagoon nebula, including M8E, a young stellar object, and the star clusters NGC 6523 and NGC 6530. At the center of the Lagoon nebula is the star Herschel 36. Distance measurements to this nebula vary widely, from 4,000 to 6,500 light-years away from Earth.
Also included in this image but not classified as part of M8, is another cloud of warm dust and gas, located up and to the right of M8. This cloud is emitting infrared radiation.
• Image Credit: NASA/JPL
Lagoon Nebula
Waves breaking in the stellar lagoon
This close-up shot of the centre of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) clearly shows the delicate structures formed when the powerful radiation of young stars interacts with the hydrogen cloud they formed from.
This image was created from exposures taken with the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on Hubble. Light from glowing hydrogen is coloured red. Light from ionised nitrogen is coloured green and light through a yellow filter is coloured blue. The blue-white flare at the upper-left of the image is scattered light from a bright star just outside the field of view.
• Source: spacetelescope.org via The Big Picture
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Lagoon Nebula By: Jukka-Pekka Metsävainio
