Friday, August 25, 2006

Blue Lagoon

The Lagoon nebula was discovered by Meisser as one of his "fuzzy spots". The Nebula is bright enough to be seen with the naked eye due to the fact that is a H-Alpha emitter. It spans about 30 light-years at about 5,000 light-years from Earth.

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