Materials: cotton and polyester composite (canvas), pine wood (frame)
Soft rubber dots on bottom back corners for support
Back hanging included
Inner frame made with radiata pine sourced from renewable forests
Due to the production process of the canvases, please allow for slight size deviations with a tolerance +/- 1/8" (3.2mm)
M8, also known as the Lagoon Nebula, is a vibrant and sprawling emission nebula located about 4,000 to 6,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. One interesting fact about M8 is that it is a stellar nursery, a region in space where new stars are being born. This nebula is particularly noted for its size and brightness, making it visible to the naked eye under good conditions, which is quite remarkable for such a celestial object. Its glowing gas and dark dust lanes create a picturesque lagoon-like appearance, hence its name.
Moreover, the Lagoon Nebula contains a structure known as the Hourglass Nebula, which is especially fascinating. This area within M8 is where intense ultraviolet radiation from young, hot stars is causing the surrounding gas to glow vividly, and it's also a region where new stars are actively forming. This combination of features makes the Lagoon Nebula both a beautiful astronomical object to observe and an interesting laboratory for studying star formation and nebular evolution.
