# Hubble NGC6530

- By: ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. De Marco; Acknowledgment: M.H. Özsaraç
- Date: 2022-12-16
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: NASA
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_NGC6530.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/3/3f/Hubble_NGC6530.jpg/1920px-Hubble_NGC6530.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded with stars in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 6530 is a collection of several thousand stars lying around 4,350 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The cluster is set within the larger Lagoon Nebula, a gigantic interstellar cloud of gas and dust. Hubble has previously imaged the Lagoon Nebula several times, including these images: \[1\]\[2\] released in 2010 and 2011. It is the nebula that gives this image its distinctly smoky appearance; clouds of interstellar gas and dust stretch from one side of the image to the other.