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Cosmic Reef Zoom Video

Zoom into Starbirth Region in Neighboring Galaxy

This video begins by zooming into the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, located 163,000 light-years away. The small galaxy is ablaze with new star formation. The camera zooms up on one such region, called NGC 2014, which is full of colorful, glowing gases energized by a central cluster of newborn stars. The blue, ring-like feature at lower left (NGC 2020) is formed by a torrential gaseous outflow from a lone, massive, super-hot star at its center.

  • Release Date
    April 24, 2020
  • Science Release
    Hubble Marks 30 Years in Space with Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth
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  • Credit
    NASA, ESA and A. Pagan (STScI) Acknowledgement: A.Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey

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Claire Andreoli
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Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov

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