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A section of a Hubble image of Westerlund 2 in near infra-red. It was released last year for Hubble's 25th birthday. The red dots scattered throughout the cosmic landscape captured in this . . . image are a rich population of forming stars that are still wrapped in their gas and dust cocoons. They have not yet ignited the hydrogen in their cores to light-up as stars. However, Hubble’s near-infrared vision allows astronomers to identify these fledglings. The brilliant blue stars seen throughout the image are mostly in the foreground. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team
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M8, also known as the Lagoon Nebula, is located around 4500 light years away in the constellation Sagittarius. This image is a small region in the center of the nebula. The whole nebula is enormous, around 140 by 60 light years. (Our whole Solar System from the Sun out to the edge of the Oort Cloud has a radius of only two light years.) The clouds that you see are glowing from high-energy radiation. The massive stars hiding within the heart of the nebula give off enormous amounts of ultraviolet radiation, ionising the gas and causing it to shine colourfully, as well as sculpting the surrounding nebula into strange shapes. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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Oyster Nebula in NGC 1501 The nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas that glows by the radiation from a nearby star. It's a planetary nebula formed as a dying star sloughs off its outer layers. Copyright ESA/Hubble & NASA; acknowledgement: M. Canale
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NGC 2174 is a violent stellar nursery. Radiation from hot young stars make the surrounding gas glow, and also creates high velocity winds that blow the gas outwards. The nebula lies about 6400 light-years away in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter). respectively and the field of view is about 1.8 arcminutes across. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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Like usual amazing pictures!
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Hubble Spots a Celestial Bubble. This delicate shell seems to float serenely in the depths of space, but the apparent calm hides an inner turmoil. This is SNR B0509-67.5 (or SNR 0509 for short), the result of the blast wave from a supernova tearing through the interstellar medium. The bubble is the visible remnant of a powerful stellar explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy about 160 000 light-years from Earth. The bubble is 23 light years across and expanding at the rate of more than 18 million km/hr. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgement: J. Hughes (Rutgers University)
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There's a bridge between these two spiral galaxies, NGC 5257 and NGC 5258. It's made of gas and stars, showing a disruption that occurred when they moved close to each other. They will keep making these close passes over millions of years, and eventually merge into one galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope; Processing & Copyright: Chris Kotsiopoulos
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