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Tapestry of blazing starbirth

Tapestry of blazing starbirth


Date: 24 April 2020
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: NGC 2014 and NGC 2020
Copyright: NASA, ESA, and STScI, CC BY 4.0

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. The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020 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.

 
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Last Update: 24 April 2020
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