To find the Lagoon Nebula, locate the constellation Sagittarius and the famous “teapot” structure in the southern sky. Moving west in the sky, follow a line connecting the top of the teapot ...

This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the Lagoon Nebula, an object with a deceptively tranquil name. The region is filled with intense winds from hot stars, churning funnels of gas ...

Irish astronomer Agnes M. Clerke coined the nickname “the Lagoon Nebula” in her 1890 book The System of the Stars. When we set our sights on M8, our gaze is taking us some 4,100 light-years away.

Hubble previously imaged the Lagoon Nebula in one of its most famous photos, which was shared to celebrate the telescope’s 28th anniversary. This image also showed just a part of the full nebula ...

StarStuff image The Lagoon Nebula may sound tranquil, but this image reveals its stormy heart. Normally hidden from view, the heart of Lagoon Nebula is filled with intense stellar tempests ...

The seemingly mystical Lagoon Nebula is a budding star nursery also known as Messier 8. It is approximately 4,000 to 5,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer).

The Lagoon Nebula is a colossal object 55 light-year wide and 20 light-years tall. Even though it is about 4000 light-years away from Earth, it is three times larger in the sky than the full Moon.

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.

The European Southern Observatory has released the first image collected by their new SPECULOOS instrument, and it's a stunning portrait of the Lagoon Nebula. SPECULOOS isn't designed to study ...

The European Southern Observatory has released a new image of the Lagoon Nebula that twinkles with hot new stars and stellar clusters that are busy forming in the plumes of gas and dust within ...