Hubble celebrates 30 years in space with a gorgeous landscape of stars

Happy Birthday Hubble! To celebrate the telescope’s three decades in space, the team of researchers behind the Hubble have released an amazing new image of two nebulas in the Large Magellenic Cloud, a smaller galaxy about 163,000 light-years from our Milky Way.

The larger, red nebula is NGC 2014, and the bright, newly formed stars at its heart are 10-20 times the size of the Sun, according to NASA. The blue nebula, NGC 2020, was formed when a star 200,000 times larger than our Sun ejected a huge amount of gas.

Researchers thought the image looked a lot like a coral reef, titling the resulting picture ‘Cosmic Reef.’

“It’s Hubble’s exquisite vision from its orbit above Earth’s atmosphere that gives us the ability to get a clear glimpse...

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