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.

Irish astronomer Agnes M. Clerke coined the nickname “the Lagoon Nebula” in her 1890 book The System of the Stars. When we set our sights on M8, our gaze is taking us some 4,100 light-years away.

Hubble previously imaged the Lagoon Nebula in one of its most famous photos, which was shared to celebrate the telescope’s 28th anniversary. This image also showed just a part of the full nebula ...

A new image of a star-forming region known as the Lagoon Nebula that lies about 4,000 to 5,000 light-years away has been captured by the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) UK-desig… ...

This stunning nebula is best seen around 3 A.M. local daylight time, when it stands 25° high in the south. The Lagoon lies within the diffuse, cloudy glow of the plane of the Milky Way.

In the constellation Sagittarius lie a pair of iconic deep-sky objects: the Lagoon Nebula (M8) and the Trifid Nebula (M20). Both are stellar nurseries, aglow with warm hydrogen gas and cris ...

Meyer captured the ancient light cast out by the Lagoon and Trifid Nebula over 34 hours in May 2025, while observing under the near-pristine dark skies of Arizona, a little north of Ash Fork.

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 ...

The center of Lagoon Nebula, captured by the Hubble Telescope. Nebulae are the primary sources of helium-3, and the amount of He-3 leaking from the Earth’s core suggests the planet formed inside ...

Meyer captured the ancient light cast out by the Lagoon and Trifid Nebula over 34 hours in May 2025, while observing under the near-pristine dark skies of Arizona, a little north of Ash Fork ...