Hubble 28th Anniversary Image Captures Roiling Heart of Vast Stellar Nursery
Release date: Apr 19, 2018 10:00 AM (EDT)
Hubble celebrates 28th anniversary in style with stunning view of Lagoon Nebula
For 28 years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been delivering breathtaking views of the universe. Although the telescope has made more than 1.5 million observations of over 40,000 space objects, it is still uncovering stunning celestial gems.
The latest offering is this image of the Lagoon Nebula to celebrate the telescope's anniversary. Hubble shows this vast stellar nursery in stunning unprecedented detail.
At the center of the photo, a monster young star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun is blasting powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds, carving out a fantasy landscape of ridges, cavities, and mountains of gas and dust. This region epitomizes a typical, raucous stellar nursery full of birth and destruction.
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