Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery

NASA's best-recognized, longest-lived, and most prolific space observatory zooms past a threshold of 20 years of operation this month. On April 24, 1990, the space shuttle and crew of STS-31 were launched to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope into a low-Earth orbit. What followed was one of the most remarkable sagas of the space age. NASA is releasing today a brand new Hubble photo of a small portion of one of the largest seen star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula.

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