We study the space of
nearly Kähler structures on compact 6-dimensional manifolds. In particular, we
prove that the space of infinitesimal deformations of a strictly nearly Kähler
structure (with scalar curvature scal) modulo the group of diffeomorphisms is
isomorphic to the space of primitive coclosed (1,1)-eigenforms of the Laplace
operator for the eigenvalue 2scal∕5.