M17 (NGC 6618) - also known as Omega, Swan, Horseshoe, or Lobster Nebula
Starforming nebula in Sagittarius
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5500 light years away, neighbor to M16 in the Sagittarius-Carina Arm of the Milky Way.
Image Credit: Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Space Telescope, Color data: Wolfgang Promper, Processing: Robert Gendler -
Image from the VLT Survey Telescope.
Credit: ESO/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM. Acknowledgement: OmegaCen/Astro-WISE/Kapteyn Institute -
Messier 17
Information and history on M17 -
Messier 17
How to find M17 in the night sky -
M17 - Emission Nebula
Very cool page showing M17 in various wavelengths - visible light, infrared, x-ray, radio
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