Colorful Star Birth Region Unveiled On 100,000th Orbit Milestone
Monday, August 11, 2008 - 07:28
in Astronomy & Space
During Hubble’s 100,000th orbit around the Earth it peered into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074 (upper, left). The region is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, perhaps triggered by a nearby supernova explosion. It lies about 170,000 light-years away near the Tarantula nebula, one of the most active star-forming regions in our Local Group of galaxies.