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Hubble's bubble! 🫧
This blue 'bubble' surrounding a massive, late-stage star is called a Wolf-Rayet nebula. It was created when speedy stellar winds interacted with the outer layers of hydrogen ejected from the star!
For more on this #HubbleClassic : go.nasa.gov/44abHKc
So close, yet so far...
The galaxy and bright star in this #HubbleFriday image might look close together, but they're over 129 million light-years apart! This is a trick of perspective from Hubble's vantage point in low-Earth orbit: go.nasa.gov/4aHgs0a
Good news from our future telescope teammate Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – its mirrors passed vision testing!
Roman has a primary mirror the same size as Hubble’s primary mirror, but with a larger field-of-view to gather sweeping survey observations of our universe once it launches in 2027. ⬇️
Meet NGC 2146.
At 70 million light-years away, the galaxy in this #HubbleClassic view has an odd feature seen at front-and-center.
One of its spiral arms looks looped in front of the galaxy's core, likely caused by a nearby galaxy's gravitational pull: go.nasa.gov/4d16jgn
Hubble helped show what humans are capable of in space. 🧑🚀
Astronauts went on five servicing missions to the telescope, completing complicated spacewalks to repair and upgrade Hubble.
Learn more for #InternationalDayOfHumanSpaceFlight : go.nasa.gov/3vRxuK4
A hundred million light-years away, billions of stars shine in the galaxy IC 4633.
This #HubbleFriday image shows a hub of activity and starbirth – but you might notice in the lower right regions, it's a little obscured by a nebula within our own galaxy: go.nasa.gov/49yFmha
Originally released in celebration of Hubble's 100,000th orbit in 2008, this #HubbleClassic image shows a spectacular scene of starbirth.
About 170,000 light-years away, this nebula is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way: go.nasa.gov/4cMB0pM