Hubble
Space Telescope’s iconic images and scientific breakthroughs have redefined our
view of the Universe. To commemorate three decades of scientific discoveries,
this image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar
nurseries the telescope has observed during its 30-year lifetime. The portrait
features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020 which together
form part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a
satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 163 000 light-years away. The
image is nicknamed the “Cosmic Reef” because it resembles an undersea world.
Learn more about
this image here and
take a look at region from a ground-based telescope here.
Image
& info via ESA
Source: Tapestry of blazing
starbirth – Scents of Science (myfusimotors.com)
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