The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae
M8 and M20 in Sagittarius
are a beautiful grouping of emission, absorption, and reflection nebulae at the heart of the Milky Way.
I am indebted to Jim Misti and Steve Mazlin for this data. Featuring myriad stars, serpentine belts of dark dust lanes,
pink star-birthing hydrogen regions, and blue reflection clouds- could this field be any more stunning?
At lower center is M8 The Lagoon, and at 1 o'clock is M20 The Trifid, so called because its pinkish section is divided by the dark lanes into three lobes.
Just to the left and above M8 is the emission and reflection nebula, NGC 6559.
LARGE
are a beautiful grouping of emission, absorption, and reflection nebulae at the heart of the Milky Way.
I am indebted to Jim Misti and Steve Mazlin for this data. Featuring myriad stars, serpentine belts of dark dust lanes,
pink star-birthing hydrogen regions, and blue reflection clouds- could this field be any more stunning?
At lower center is M8 The Lagoon, and at 1 o'clock is M20 The Trifid, so called because its pinkish section is divided by the dark lanes into three lobes.
Just to the left and above M8 is the emission and reflection nebula, NGC 6559.
LARGE