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- Better known as the "Lagoon Nebula", M8
- is one of the best diffuse nebula easily
- visible to the naked eye. M8 surrounds
- the small young star cluster NGC6530.
- The nebula is known for having a number
- small dark "globules" of material
- believed to be stars at the very
- beginning of formation or "protostars".
- Overall M8 is over 100 light years
- across, its central regions
- a more modest 50 light years in diameter.
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