M8, Lagoon Nebula
noirlab_noao-noao-m8 June 30th, 2020
Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage)
This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the KPNO 0.9m-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. M8 is a giant star forming region. It is so big that it is faintly visible to the naked eye. The gas in the nebula is energized by a massive star at its center, causing the gas to glow. The dark objects within the nebula are called Bok globules, and are dense clouds of gas in which new stars are forming. The image was generated with observations in Hydrogen alpha (red), Oxygen [OIII] (green) and Sulfur [SII] (blue) filters. In this image, North is left, East is down
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-noao-m8/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-noao-m8
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Lagoon Nebula, M8
- Credits
- T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage)
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:05
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-noao-m8/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope, WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope, WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Mosaic I, Mosaic I, Mosaic I
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Sll, Olll, Ha
- Central Wavelength
- 672, 499, 656
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 270.9538315, -24.55171393
- Reference Dimension
- 7324.0, 7519.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1694.376923, 3727.596771
- Scale
- -0.000118, 0.000118
- Rotation
- -89.8997572
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noao-noao-m8
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-noao-m8.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:33.018911
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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