Sagittarius Star Cloud
Messier 24 (M24), also known as the Sagittarius Star Cloud is a large Milky Way star cloud in Sagittarius constellation. M24 is not a bright galaxy, star cluster, or nebula. It's a gap in nearby, obscuring interstellar dust clouds that allows a view of the distant stars in the Sagittarius spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. When you gaze at the star cloud you are looking through a window over 300 light-years wide at stars some 10,000 light-years or more from Earth. In the night sky, the star cloud appears about nine times larger than the full Moon.
Sagittarius Star Cloud
Messier 24 (M24), also known as the Sagittarius Star Cloud is a large Milky Way star cloud in Sagittarius constellation. M24 is not a bright galaxy, star cluster, or nebula. It's a gap in nearby, obscuring interstellar dust clouds that allows a view of the distant stars in the Sagittarius spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. When you gaze at the star cloud you are looking through a window over 300 light-years wide at stars some 10,000 light-years or more from Earth. In the night sky, the star cloud appears about nine times larger than the full Moon.