Trifid Nebula

The Trifid Nebula (also known as Messier 20 or NGC 6514 ) is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Sagittarius. The name comes from the Latin word trifidus " divided into three parts, three split " as a dark dust cloud ( Barnard 85) trisects the fog.

Detail with jets, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

The Trifid Nebula is a place of star formation (H II region ) like with an apparent magnitude of 9.0, and a surface area of 28 '× 28'. The ionization of the main nebula is done by the hot star HD 164 492, which belongs to the type O7. Inside the nebula is still hiding some, only in the infrared, visible -mass protostars. The removal of the Trifidnebels of the earth is about 5200 light years. Because of its southern position of fog in Central Europe is not very good to watch. On the Detail jets are visible, as they develop in the star formation.