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Hubble Snaps New Star Birth Photos During 100,000th Orbit

Hubble scientists have captured beautiful images of celestial birth in a region 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The pictures, taken in honor of the space telescope's 100,000th orbit, show one of the most active star-forming regions in...
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Birthing Stars Tear Into A Nebula With A Fierce Beauty [Space Porn]

Genres / Sci Fi : io9 (5 years ago)

Here's a detail of a new image the Hubble Space Telescope released to celebrate its 100,000th orbit of Earth. It shows the "firestorm" of star creation in the nebula near star cluster NGC 2074. The... [[ This is a content summary on... Read Post

New Image of a Colossal Ancient Globular Cluster

Academics / General Science : The Daily Galaxy (3 years ago)

This new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the globular cluster known as NGC 1806. Comprised of tens of thousands of stars, it sits within the Large Magellanic Cloud - a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way -... Read Post

Wired Space Photo of the Day: Intricate Gas Sculpture

Academics / General Science : Wired Science (2 months ago)

This Hubble Space Telescope view shows one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. At the... Read Post


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