Hubble Captures Starbirth In A Monkey’s Head As Telescope Approaches 24 Years In Space

(Before It's News)

A 2014 image of NGC 2174 by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Billowing gas clouds and young stars feature in this February Hubble Space Telescope image, released as the telescope approaches its 24th birthday this coming April. The telescope has seen a lot of drama over the years, but in this case, thankfully the excitement is taking place 6,400 light-years away. Here you can see starbirth in action in the nebula NGC 2174, which is sometimes called the Monkey Head Nebula.

“This region is filled with young stars embedded within bright wisps of cosmic gas and dust. Dark dust clouds billow outwards, framed against a background of bright blue gas. These striking hues were formed by combining several Hubble images taken through different coloured filters, revealing a broad range of colours not normally visible to our eyes,” the European Space Agency wrote.

(…)
Read the rest of Hubble Captures Starbirth In A Monkey’s Head As Telescope Approaches 24 Years In Space (132 words)

© Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today, 2014. |
Permalink |
No comment |

Post tags: monkey’s head nebula, nebula, NGC 2174

Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

• F-1 engines and explorers
• New Data Suggests Mercury Contracted Far More Than Previously Thought
• 6 days Moon phase in action between 8 and 14 March 2014 (video).
• China’s Yutu Moon rover starts Lunar Day 4 Awake but Ailing
• Virtual Star Party – March 16, 2014
• Komarov Nearly Survived First Soyuz Reentry
• Mercury Shrinking: the First Rock from the Sun Contracted More than Once Thought
• Rumors Flying Nearly as Fast as Their Subject: Have Gravitational Waves Been Detected?
• Anne’s Image of the Day: The Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex
• Scientists May Get Best View Yet Of A Black Hole In Action (Video)