2023-04-22 22:23:13
The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 33rd birthday, and for the occasion, NASA has released breathtaking photos of a star-forming region.
The nebula, a cluster of interstellar gas and dust, lies within the Perseus Molecular Cloud and is located regarding 960 light-years away.
Hubble’s colorful images, which it obtained with its ability to capture from ultraviolet to near-infrared, show an “effervescent cauldron of glowing gas and black dust stirred and blown by several hundred newly formed stars embedded in the dark cloud,” NASA wrote on its website.
To take these images, the telescope passes through a veil of dust near a “giant cloud of cold molecular hydrogen”, which is the raw material for the formation of new stars and planets, which are then formed thanks to the earth’s attraction.
This view allows us to imagine the time when our Sun and our planets formed inside such a dusty molecular cloud, 4.6 billion years ago, can we read in the description of the image.
Hubble was launched into orbit around Earth on April 25, 1990 by NASA astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery. To date, the telescope has made regarding 1.6 million observations of nearly 52,000 celestial targets.
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