The Lagoon Nebula (M8) in Sagittarius appears highest around 3 A.M., when it soars above the Teapot of Sagittarius.

This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

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 ...

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A pink lagoon glows in the Milky Way. New photos taken by a telescope in Chile put the Lagoon Nebula — a giant cloud of gas and dust located 5,000 light-years from Earth — on rosy display.

The Lagoon Nebula, as imaged by the new SPECULOOS Southern Observatory. ESO The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has been showing off its new toys, recently sharing first light images from its ...

NASA’s top skywatching tips for August include a meetup of Jupiter and Mars, a look at the Perseid meteors, and a view of the Lagoon Nebula. The space agency shared its ideas about what to look ...

The Ghost Head Nebula is another star formation hub. Its red-and-green glow comes from light emitted by hydrogen and oxygen. Intense radiation sculpted dust and gas into the robust Lagoon Nebula.

The Lagoon Nebula: To celebrate its 28th anniversary in space the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope took this amazing and colourful image of the Lagoon Nebula. Butterfly emerges from stellar demise ...