Stormy Seas in the Lagoon © Hubble

The Lagoon Nebula, M8 // RobDSJ

Here, the Lagoon Nebula is being displayed in the "SHO palette." This is the palette commonly used by the Hubble Space Telescope in its images, where you map the light produced by three elements, sulfur (S), hydrogen (H), and oxygen (O) to three colors, red, green, and blue.

The Lagoon Nebula has a cluster at the center responsible for ionizing the gas that is only about 2 million years old. The gas stretches across the sky a length equivalent to about 3 full moons.

The Lagoon Nebula and the Trifid Nebula

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Flying through the Lagoon

M8: An Open Cluster in the Lagoon - January 27th, 1996.

"The large majestic Lagoon Nebula is home for many young stars and hot gas. The Lagoon Nebulae is so large and bright it can be seen without a telescope. Formed only several million years ago in the nebula is the open cluster known as NGC 6530, whose young stars show their high temperature by their blue glow. The nebula, also known as M8 and NGC 6523, is named "Lagoon" for the band of dust seen to the left of the open cluster's center. A bright knot of gas and dust in the nebula's center is known as the Hourglass Nebula. Star formation continues in the the Lagoon Nebula as witnessed by the many globules that exist there."

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Ridges of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds inhabit the turbulent Lagoon Nebula. Also known as M8, The bright star forming region is about 5,000 light-years away. It makes for a popular stop on telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius which lies toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. It is dominated by the red emission of ionized hydrogen atoms that are recombining with stripped electrons. This view of the Lagoon's central region reaches about 40 light-years across. The bright hourglass shape near the center of the frame is gas ionized by radiation and extreme stellar winds from a massive young star.

Image Credit: Josep Drudis

Trick or Treat!

For you, one of my favorite types of astronomical objects!

A Nebula! Specifically, the Lagoon Nebula! This part is only 4 light-years across, the full nebula is 55 light-years wide and 20 light-years tall! The different colors that you see in nebulae are from the different temperatures and the different kinds of gas! Singly-ionized hydrogen and doubly-ionized oxygen look very different, and scientists can use their spectra to map out a nebula and see where stars are being formed!

This image was taken on Hubble's WFC3 camera to celebrate Hubble's 28th birthday!

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Cosmic Lagoon

Bats flying into a cave. Inspired by a combination of the Rosette and Lagoon nebulae.

This is the Lagoon Nebula! 💗💗💗

The beautiful lagoon shaped portion is created from aggressive stellar winds pushing the nebulae’s gas and dust aside. Many of the stars here are young, hot O-type stars that are more than 200,000 times brighter than the Sun! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on July 23rd, 2022 at 22:31 UTC. 

The Deep Lagoon © JDrudis-CSasse

The Lagoon Nebula, M8 // John Dziuba

Zoomed-in, now you can see some of the concentrations of interstellar dust at the heart of the Lagoon Nebula. The darkest and densest parts are called Bok globules where new stars are being formed. These globules are on average 10,000 astronomical units* in diameter.

*An astronomical unit is the distance between the Earth and the Sun, or about 93 million miles.

The Deep Lagoon

✧｡:*▹ Lagoonebulaic

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✧ Lagoonebulaic is a SPAN nebulaic gender related to the Lagoon nebula, or Messier 8 or NGC 6523 located in Sagittarius.

✧ Pronouns can include:

lagoon/lagoon/lagoons/lagoons/lagoonself

neb/nebula/nebulas/nebulas/nebulaself

cloud/cloud/clouds/clouds/cloudself

ID: a white DNI with a panel of the manga Oyasumi Punpun with 5 kids doing a joint pose. Words are black on the right side: “DNI: anti- ‘contradictory’ labels, anti-mogai, terf, gatekeeper, anti-decolonization, believes ‘narc abuze’ is real, demonizes ‘scary/evil’ disorders + labels.” End ID.

The Trifid (M20, NGC 6514) & The Lagoon Nebula  ( M8, NGC 6523)

Constellation Sagittarius.

Distance to Earth: 5.200 & 4.100 light years.

DSLR Canon Rebel T3i

Montcada i Reixac (Bortle 8)