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.

2024年9月12日 · Famously known as the Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8 shines by the ionizing ultraviolet radiation of its embedded young stars. A portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded with stars in this …

2023年9月5日 · The Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8, NGC 6523) is a large emission nebula located 4,100 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. With an apparent magnitude of 4.6 and an apparent size of 90 by 40 arcminutes, it is the brightest …

2023年8月10日 · Messier 8 (M8) is the formal designation for this nebula. It’s a large gas cloud within our Milky Way galaxy, barely visible to the human eye under good conditions, but glorious with a dark sky...

The Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) is a bright emission nebula in the constellation Sagittarius. It is an active stellar nursery, an area of dust and gas in space where stars are formed. It lies about 5,000 light-years away, near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy in the rich starfields of Sagittarius.

2015年2月20日 · Messier 8 (M8), also known as the Lagoon Nebula, is a large, bright emission nebula located in the constellation Sagittarius. The star-forming nebula has an apparent magnitude of 6.0 and lies at a distance of 4,100 light years from Earth. It has the designation NGC 6523 in the New General Catalogue.

2018年12月17日 · Also known as NGC 6523 or the Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8 is a giant cloud of gas and dust where stars are currently forming. At a distance of about 4,000 light years from Earth, Messier 8 provides astronomers an excellent …

2016年3月21日 · A new infrared view of the star formation region Messier 8, often called the Lagoon Nebula, captured by the VISTA telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Credit: ESO/VVV. M8...

Messier 8 (NGC 6523), also known as the Lagoon Nebula, is a nebula w/cluster located in the constellation Sagittarius, in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy in the Local Group of galaxies. M8 is 4000 light years away from Earth.

Messier 8 or M8 (also designated NGC 6523) is a nebula and star cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 6 and its angular diameter is 90x40 arc-minutes. M8 lies at an estimated distance of 5200 light years.