Hubble Space Telescope turns 30: what you see in the spectacular image released by NASA

It may seem like the work of some plastic artist.

However, it is the last image of the cosmos that produced the hubble telescope and that was published this Friday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the USA. (NASA) upon completion 30 years ofsde that orbits Earth.

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It is “a colorful image that resembles a cosmic version of a star-filled underwater world,” describes the website of the famous telescope.

And for that similarity with the depth of the ocean it is named after “Cosmic Reef” (Cosmic Reef).

But what does the image show specifically?

Fire storm

The image shared by NASA is a portrait of a firestorm from the birth of stars in a neighboring galaxy.

According to the description, the big red cloud (on the right), known as NGC 2014, is a grouping of bright stars that are located at its center, each 10 to 20 times larger than the Sun.

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The ultraviolet radiation from the stars heats the dense gas that surrounds them and that reddish color indicates the presence of hydrogen and nitrogen in space.

“Massive stars also unleash fierce winds from charged particles that eject low-density gas, forming the bubble-like structures seen to the right,” says NASA.

The powerful stellar winds from the stars push gas and dust onto the denser left side of the nebula, where it accumulates, creating a series of dark ridges bathed in starlight, the statement accompanying the photo explains.

The Smaller bluish “brushstrokes” within NGC 2014 show oxygen glow, heated to almost 11,000 degrees Celsius, by the explosion of ultraviolet light.

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On the other hand, in the lower left corner is shown a smaller blue cloud, what’s wrong with it name of NGC 2020 and created by a lone mammoth star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun.

The star ejected the blue gas through a series of eruptive events during which it lost part of its outer shell.

This entire star zone is part of a vast star-forming region in the Great Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy of the Milky Way, located 163,000 light years away.

“Hubble has given us an amazing view of the universe, from nearby planets to the most distant galaxies we’ve seen so far,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate science administrator at NASA headquarters in Washington.

In its 30 years of life, the telescope Hubble made 1.4 million observations and provided data that astronomers around the world have used to write more than 17,000 peer-reviewed scientific publications, making it the most prolific space observatory in history.

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