Hubble_NGC6530.jpg

Summary

Description Hubble NGC6530.jpg	A portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded with stars in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 6530 is a collection of several thousand stars lying around 4,350 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The cluster is set within the larger Lagoon Nebula, a gigantic interstellar cloud of gas and dust. Hubble has previously imaged the Lagoon Nebula several times, including these images: [1] [2] released in 2010 and 2011. It is the nebula that gives this image its distinctly smoky appearance; clouds of interstellar gas and dust stretch from one side of the image to the other.
Date	16 December 2022
Source	NASA
Author	ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. De Marco; Acknowledgment: M.H. Özsaraç


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