Space / 2008-08-10
Hubble Unveils Colorful and Turbulent Star-Birth Region on 100,000th Orbit Milestone
Hubble Unveils Colorful and Turbulent Star-Birth Region on 100,000th Orbit Milestone
NASA's image library records Hubble Unveils Colorful and Turbulent Star-Birth Region on 100,000th Orbit Milestone.
WHY IT’S INTERESTING
NASA Hubble peers into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074. The region is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, perhaps triggered by a nearby supernova explosion. It lies about 170,000 light-years away near the Tarantula