LAGOON NEBULA

4100 light-years

The large Lagoon Nebula is one of the brightest and most luminous regions of gas clouds and young stars. Spanning 100 light-years across, it is so large and bright that it can be seen without a telescope toward the constellation of Sagittarius (the archer).

Credit: Richard Crisp.

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