Nebula
A vast stellar nursery visible to the naked eye, containing a young star cluster embedded within its glowing gas.
| Type | Nebula |
|---|---|
| Nebula type | Emission |
| Distance from Earth | 4,100 ly |
| Diameter | 1,040,000,000,000,000 km |
| Mass | 1.99 × 10^33 kg |
| Temperature | 9,727°C |
| Apparent magnitude | 4.6 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Hemisphere | Southern |
| Discovered | 1654 |
At 1,040,000,000,000,000 km across, Lagoon Nebula is 81,619,839,900 times the diameter of Earth.
Its mass is 333,054,253 times the mass of Earth.
The light reaching us from Lagoon Nebula tonight left it around 4,100 years ago.
An average temperature of 10,000 K works out at 9,727 degrees Celsius, warmer than the 15 degrees Earth averages.
It has been on record since 1654.
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