The Hubble Telescope has been operating for 31 years.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — The Hubble telescope has been operating for 31 years. This telescope is soon entering retirement age as a space telescope. Instead, it will launch telescope James Webb as the most advanced and cutting-edge space telescope.
Although the Hubble era is gradually coming to an end, this telescope has captured many spectacular and amazing photos. Reported from PBS, Thursday (25/11), here are 10 photos produced by Hubble during 31 years in space.
Cosmic Reef or Cosmic Reef
The Cosmic Reef consists of two distinct nebulae. The larger red one and the smaller blue one on a black background are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way’s satellite galaxy.
According to NASA, the Cosmic Reef stretches about 163,000 light years from Earth. Nicknamed the Cosmic Reef, because the red nebula resembles a coral reef floating in a sea of stars. The shimmering central region is a cluster of hefty stars, each 10 to 20 times larger than our sun.
Overlapping Galaxies
The overlapping galaxies are also known as NGC 3314. The two galaxies look as if they collided, but are actually tens of millions of light years apart, or about ten times the distance between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy.
The motion of the two galaxies indicates that they are relatively undisturbed and moving in very different directions and not on any collision course.
Star Cluster R136
In the central region of the Tarantula Nebula, about 170,000 light-years from Earth, lies a dense cluster of young stars. Among hundreds of young stars, blue stars are the most massive stars detected in the universe. In the densest central region of the cluster, astronomers have discovered nine stars with masses greater than 100 times the mass of the sun.
The Veil Nebula
The Veil Nebula is a heated and ionized cloud of gas and dust from the constellation Cygrus. In this picture, red is like hydrogen, green is for sulfur, and blue is for oxygen.
Echoes of light from supergiant stars
The red supergiant star V838 Monocerotis reveals a dramatic change in the illumination of the dust cloud around it. The effect, called light echo, reveals a pattern of dust never seen before when the star suddenly brightened in January 2002. It became one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way, 600,000 times brighter than the sun before fading away in April 2002. .
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