# Lagoon Nebula on SpaceSphere

> A glowing gas cloud that has already made its own cluster of stars, still wrapped in the gas they formed from.

Canonical: https://spacesphere.sygnito.com/en/universe/lagoon-nebula

Nebula

A glowing gas cloud that has already made its own cluster of stars, still wrapped in the gas they formed from.

## Facts

- **Position**: 270.92196, -24.38017 (Source: NASA Extragalactic Database)
- **Brightness**: about 5.8 (Source: OpenNGC)
- **Apparent size**: about 45 x 30 arcminutes (Source: OpenNGC)
- **Constellation**: Sagittarius (Source: OpenNGC)

## Catalogue designations

NGC6523, M8, LBN 25

Source: OpenNGC

## Can you see it tonight?

The page works this out in the visitor's browser, from their own location, and the answer is a prediction rather than an observation. It is not part of this file.

## Sources

- This research has made use of the [NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database](https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/), which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology.
- [OpenNGC](https://github.com/mattiaverga/OpenNGC), Mattia Verga, licensed [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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