The Orion Nebula gets some stiff competition for best in class from the Lagoon Nebula (M8) in Sagittarius. The Lagoon Nebula is visible to the naked eye on dark moonless nights as a bright patch ...

One such nebula, the Lagoon Nebula, is visible with binoculars or small telescopes and is best seen in August. Here’s what it is and how to find it. The Lagoon Nebula is a stellar nursery ...

This third installment provides another breathtaking vista of an astronomical object, this time a 370-million-pixel view of the Lagoon Nebula of the ... to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ...

Within the Lagoon Nebula lies the star cluster NGC-6530, made up of a few thousand stars. Young stars twinkle within a rainbow curtain of dust and gas in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space ...

While many of them have easy to remember names—like the Orion Nebula, the Lagoon Nebula ... (or just "M") in front of a number (usually 2 digits, 3 at the most), it means that the object ...