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Trifid Nebula

Trifid Nebula
Date taken Thu Dec 02 1999 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Trifid Nebula · Two Micron All Sky Survey 2MASS Metadata JSON

Behind the image

Atlas Image mosaic, covering 14.8 x 20.0 on the sky, of the Trifid Nebula, aka Messier 20 and NGC 6514. The Trifid is only about 1.5 degrees northwest on the sky of the larger Lagoon Nebula Messier 8 in the constellation Sagittarius