Deep-sky object
Lagoon Nebula
Lagoon Nebula is a nebula with cluster 4 100 light-years away, in Sagittarius, about 54 light-years across, seen as it was 4 100 years ago.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Type
- Nebula with cluster
- Constellation
- Sagittarius
- Distance
- 4 100 light-years
- Size
- about 54.0 light-years across
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 5.8
- Catalogue
- M8, NGC 6523
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a soft glow in the manner of its kind at its measured distance, as wide as it measures; the pattern in it is illustrative and its true shape is not drawn — the kind of thing, not this exact one.