🌫️ Nebula
Lagoon Nebula
A glowing cloud in Sagittarius, faintly visible without a telescope.
- Distance
- 5,200 light-years away
- Discovered
- 1654, by Giovanni Battista Hodierna
Did you know?
- On a dark night it can be seen without a telescope, and easily with binoculars.
- Huge young stars inside it make the gas glow with their ultraviolet light.
Photographed or visited by
Hubble Space Telescope
Thirty-six years above the weather, and still working.
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