With New Moon occurring late tonight at 11:02 P.M. EDT, today is an excellent opportunity for yet more deep-sky observing. This morning, we’re dipping into the Lagoon Nebula (M8) in Sagittarius. This ...

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Looking like smoke plumes from a forest fire, this image NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the hot, glowing clouds of gas from the Lagoon Nebula. The nebula, located in the constellation of ...

Every star you see in the night sky forms from a nebula, which is a large region of dust and gas in space. One such nebula, the Lagoon Nebula, is visible with binoculars or small telescopes and is ...