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Related: About this forumTODAY is Hubble Telescope's 25th Birthday - 25 Glorious Years of Unveiling the Universe
Revel in this spectacular commemorative image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, courtesy of HubbleCast.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/12/
April 23, 2015: NASA and ESA are celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope's silver anniversary of 25 years in space by unveiling some of nature's own fireworks a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2. The cluster resides inside a vibrant stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina. The comparatively young, 2-million-year-old star cluster contains some of our galaxy's hottest, brightest, and most massive stars. The largest stars are unleashing a torrent of ultraviolet light and hurricane-force winds that etch away the enveloping hydrogen gas cloud. This creates a fantasy celestial landscape of pillars, ridges, and valleys.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/12/video/
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/12/image/
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TODAY is Hubble Telescope's 25th Birthday - 25 Glorious Years of Unveiling the Universe (Original Post)
Surya Gayatri
Apr 2015
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Boy, that's my dream. To me, it's a spiritual experience viewing these images.
Surya Gayatri
Apr 2015
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. They're having a special thing at MOSI in Tampa
I'd like to go.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)2. Boy, that's my dream. To me, it's a spiritual experience viewing these images.
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive
But to be young (human) was very heaven.
― William Wordsworth, The Prelude
bvf
(6,604 posts)3. Happy Silver!
Beautiful images!