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M8 - The Lagoon Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Antonio
Fernandez
Stars are battling gas and dust in the Lagoon Nebula but the photographers are
winning. Also known as M8, this
photogenic nebula is visible
even without binoculars towards the constellation
of Sagittarius.
The energetic processes of star
formation create not only the colors but the chaos.
The red-glowing
gas results from high-energy starlight striking interstellar hydrogen
gas. The dark dust filaments
that lace M8 were created
in the atmospheres of cool giant
stars and in the debris
from supernovae
explosions. The light from M8
we see today left about 5,000
years ago. Light takes about 50 years to cross this section of M8
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If you wish to contact us, you can email info@nckas.org *Unless otherwise noted all images are from the STScI Digitized Sky Survey.
This page updated: 07/01/09 12:51:39 PM
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