For months now I have been writing M8 and M20 in the miscellaneous part on my constellation quizzes, yet I never knew what they actually looked like. This picture shows M8, which is also called the lagoon nebula. This is a star forming region. In these clouds of dust, many newborn stars are observed. Along with these stars are Herbig Hare objects. These objects are produced by newly formed stars as powerful jets. This is the result of the heat produced by star formation. This nebula is found in the constellation Saggitarius. This colorful picture is not the true color of what this nebula would look like to human eyes, as the image was taken in the infrared. This gorgeous image was captured by the Gemini South Telescope. It is certaintly not a picture of the entire nebula, but rather, a small portion of it.
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