Talk:Lagoon Nebula

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I had the impression from the Battlestar Galactica episode that Galactica was actually between Earth and M8 and heading this way, rather than approaching Earth from the opposite direction. The dialogue has the line: "It's a long way from here." in reference to M8, implying that they were travelling from a location much closer to it, although the emphasis on the last word may simply have been part of the actor's delivery of the line.

Then again, being such a relatively close object, surely the only place where M8 and its internal constellations appear similar to how they do on Earth is within a hundred or so light years of the solar system, regardless of whether the observer is on the straight line running through here and M8? Cyrek 22:07, 1 March 2006 (UTC)