19th February 2025
- Anusha Jain
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured seven breathtaking images of stars, showcasing cosmic beauty, stellar formations, and the universe's vast wonders.
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The star-forming region Gum 29 encircles Westerlund 2. The heaviest cluster stars are tearing away the surrounding cloud of hydrogen gas from the cluster's formation by releasing a barrage of ultraviolet light and hurricane-force winds streaming with charged particles.?
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One of the biggest 'star factories' in the Milky Way galaxy is the star-forming nebula W51. The region's visible light is blocked by interstellar dust, but NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which detects infrared light that can pass through dust clouds, shows it in this image.
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The bright core of one of the most active galaxies in our immediate vicinity is visible in this image captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The width of the entire core is 5,000 light-years.
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The focal point of this picture is a cluster of sparkling stars. The open star cluster NGC 2002 is located around 160,000 light-years from Earth.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this amazing image of the G35.2-0.7N area, which is located in the constellation Aquila around 7,200 light-years from Earth. One hotspot for high-mass star formation is G35.2-0.7N.?
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Globular clusters, which contain thousands to millions of stars that were all born from the same nebula, are far denser and larger than open clusters.?
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1,500 light-years from Earth, in the Trapezium embedded cluster of the Orion Nebula, a few young stars glimmer through thick layers of gas and dust.
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