Out of this world: Hubble celebrates its 20th birthday with amazing pictures of a turbulent cosmic tower
This stunning image is not from some artist's science fiction fantasy but was taken by Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope.
For 20 years it has been peering into deep space and this image was released today to celebrate its birthday.
Taken earlier this year the picture captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. Look at the clarity and the closeness of each picture where we can see every particle very clear.
These two images of Carina Nebula show observations taken in visible and in infrared light by Hubble reveal dramatically different views. The one on the right reveals the stars behind the nebula's wall of hydrogen laced wtih dust
The image of Carina Nebula resembles this 1995 image taken by Hubble which was dubbed the 'Pillars of Creation' and has become one of its most famous images. Located at the heart of the Eagle Nebula, the Pillars are gaseous nurseries for newborn stars. The largest of the three pillars in this image is about four light-years from base to tip
This image was released by Nasa to celebrate the Hubble's 20th birthday. It shows a small portion of one of the largest star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula. The picture is reminiscent of Hubble's classic image of the Eagle Nebula dubbed the 'Pillars of Creation'. Seen here is the top of a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and the dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars
The Hubble Space Telescope drifts 353 miles above at the boundary of Earth and space. Here it can avoid the atmosphere and clearly see objects in space
Via (Daily Mail)
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