Happy 30th Anniversary to the Hubble Space Telescope! Hubble has done more than any mission or instrument to bring the wonder and majesty of space to generations of people. The JWST is going to have a lot to live up to if it wants to ever match Hubble's legend.🌟🌟🌟

"NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope's 30 years of unlocking the beauty and mystery of space by unveiling a stunning new portrait of a firestorm of starbirth in a neighboring galaxy.

In this Hubble portrait, the giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020) are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located 163,000 light-years away. The image is nicknamed the "Cosmic Reef," because it resembles an undersea world."

Download a hi-res version at the link.

“Hubble Marks 30 Years in Space with Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth”: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/hubble-marks-30-years-in-space-with-tapestry-of-blazing-starbirth/

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