Our Milky Way Galaxy's Core Revealed (Photos) News. By Space.com Staff published 27 September 2013 ... Messier 8 (the Lagoon Nebula), Messier 20 (the Trifid Nebula), NGC 6357 ...

The 100 light-year-long form of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) can be found dominating the lower section of Meyer's image, with the dense starfield near the Milky Way's core serving as a backdrop for ...

A panoramic view of the Milky Way's core, captured from the Atacama Desert in Chile. Emission nebulas are shown in pink, and the blue spots are reflection nebulas.

A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...

As summer gets deep and the center of our own galaxy rises up in the south, a certain favorite object reminds me of the “Gilligan’s Island” TV show with its ...

This week, we’re talking about the center of the Milky Way — and how to find it. If you can locate the open cluster M7 in Scorpius and the Lagoon Nebula (M8) in Sagittarius, ...

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.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Milky Way's galactic core rises high in the night sky throughout the summer, making it a prime focal point. Bootid meteor shower peak—June 27 A Bootid meteor seen ...

The Lagoon Nebula is faintly visible to the naked eye on dark nights as a small patch of grey in the heart of the Milky Way. Without a telescope, the nebula looks underwhelming because human eyes ...

These four nebulae (star-forming clouds of gas and dust) are known for their breathtaking beauty: the Eagle Nebula (which contains the Pillars of Creation), the Omega Nebula, the Trifid Nebula ...

Spanning about 3,000 light-years, this stellar splinter makes up just a fraction of the Milky Way (which has a diameter of about 100,000 light-years). Still, the newfound break is the first major ...