Messier 8, The Lagoon Nebula (José Joaquín Pérez)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: 9 Sgr · B296 · B89 · HD164865 · HD164906 · HD164947 · HD165052 · HD315024 · HD315026 · HD315028 · HD315031 · HD315032 · HD315033 · LBN 25 · LBN 26 · Lagoon Nebula · M 8 · NGC 6523 · NGC 6526 · NGC 6530 · The star 9 Sgr

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Messier 8, The Lagoon Nebula

Gas and dust condense, beginning the process of creating new stars in this image of Messier 8, also known as the Lagoon Nebula. Located four to five thousand light-years away, in the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer), the nebula is a giant interstellar cloud, one hundred light-years across. It boasts many large, hot stars, whose ultraviolet radiation sculpts the gas and dust into unusual shapes. Two of these giant stars illuminate the brightest part of the nebula, known as the Hourglass Nebula, a spiralling, funnel-like shape near its centre. Messier 8 is one of the few star-forming nebulae visible to the unaided eye, and was discovered as long ago as 1747, although the full range of colours wasn’t visible until the advent of more powerful telescopes. The Lagoon Nebula derives its name from the wide lagoon-shaped dark lane located in the middle of the nebula that divides it into two glowing sections (extracted from ESO)

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RA (center)	18h04m08s.905
RA (top/left)	18h05m25s.390
RA (top/right)	18h03m43s.616
RA (bottom/right)	18h02m52s.745
RA (bottom/left)	18h04m34s.314

Dec (center)	-24°21′54″.21
Dec (top/left)	-24°19′49″.43
Dec (top/right)	-24°05′25″.33
Dec (bottom/right)	-24°23′55″.14
Dec (bottom/left)	-24°38′23″.14

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