#ngc 2014

[cosmonautroger]

NGC 2014 & NGC 2020

[quiltofstars]

The Cosmic Reef in the LMC // Neil Corke

[spacewonder19]

Cosmic Reef NGC 2014 © edholtastro

[chibinotan]

Turbulent Stellar Nurseries

[catsstarsandkinks]

Foto di una delle regioni più turbolenti di formazione stellare, con tantissime giovani stelle giganti blu, che stanno nascendo dentro alla nebulosa che vedete sulla destra.

La foto mostra due nebulose: NGC 2014 (sulla destra) e la più piccola NGC 2020, entrambe nella Costellazione di Dorado, distanti circa 163000 anni luce da noi, nella vicina galassia nana “Grande Nube di Magellano”.  fonte - https://spacetelescope.org/images/heic2007a/ Credit:NASA, ESA, and STScI

[furryfeet]

Launched on April 24, 1990, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 1.4 million observations of nearly 47,000 celestial objects. More than 900,000 observations were taken with imaging instruments.

In its 30-year lifetime the telescope has racked up more than 175,000 trips around our planet, totaling about 4.4 billion miles.

Hubble observations have produced nearly 164 terabytes of data, which are available for present and future generations of researchers.

Astronomers using Hubble data have published more than 17,000 scientific papers, with more than 1,000 of those papers published in 2019.

[fishstickmonkey]

ESO's Very Large Telescope has captured a detailed view of a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud — one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies. This sharp image reveals two glowing clouds of gas. NGC 2014 (right) is irregularly shaped and red and its neighbour, NGC 2020, is round and blue. These odd and very different forms were both sculpted by powerful stellar winds from extremely hot newborn stars that also radiate into the gas, causing it to glow brightly.

Credit: ESO

ESO

[quiltofstars]

The Cosmic Reef // bbonic

Among the "coral" are NGC 2014 (top, red), NGC 2020 (top, blue), NGC 2032 (bottom, blue), and NGC 2040 (bottom, red).