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Hubble Telescope marks 30th anniversary with stunning new image

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EPA-EFE/NASA, ESA, and STScI / HANDOUT

The Hubble Space Telescope has celebrated its 30th birthday by issuing an extraordinary new picture from a distant galaxy.

The stunning image is of a vast star-forming region close to the Milky Way, located some 163,000 light-years away from Earth.

It shows giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020 and has been nicknamed the “Cosmic Reef” because it looks like an undersea world and 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.

This image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed during its 30-year lifetime.

 

Via EPA-EFE/NASA, ESA, and STScI / HANDOUT

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