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Top left is NE. Image width is about 47 min
Image and text © 1979-2002, Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Obs. Edinburgh.
Photograph from UK Schmidt plates by David Malin.
This dusty region is probably associated with the brighter and better-known Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae which are nearby in the sky and part of the same molecular cloud. The soft red glow of fluorescent hydrogen is evidence that there are young hot stars associated with the dusty clouds. These bright stars also illuminate the tiny solid particles, producing blue reflection nebulae bordering some of the emission regions. The dust is also evident in silhouette, both as sinuous dark lanes winding through the luminous gas and as the dark patches obscuring the ancient, yellow stars that populate the central parts of the Milky Way.
Entry from NGC 2000.0 (R.W. Sinnott, Ed.) © Sky Publishing Corporation, 1988:
NGC 6559 Nb 18 10.0 -24 06 s Sgr 8. vF, vL, lE, ** inv IC 1274 Nb 18 09.5 -23 44 s Sgr 9. 3 st 8.5 to 9m in pL neb IC 1275 Nb 18 10.0 -23 50 s Sgr 10. 2 st 8 & 8.5 in pL nebRelated images
UKS 26. M8, M20 and the NGC 6559 region in Sagittarius
UKS 26a. M8, M20 and the NGC 6559 region in Sagittarius (wide field)
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