Zoom to Nebulas NGC 2014 & NGC 2020 | Hubble

Zoom to Nebulas NGC 2014 & NGC 2020 | Hubble

This video begins by zooming into the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, located 163,000 light-years away. The small galaxy is ablaze with new star formation. The camera zooms up on one such region, called NGC 2014, which is full of colorful, glowing gases energized by a central cluster of newborn stars. The blue, ring-like feature at lower left (NGC 2020) is formed by a torrential gaseous outflow from a lone, massive, super-hot star at its center.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, and A. Pagan (Space Telescope Science Institute)

Acknowledgement: A. Fujii and Digitized Sky Survey

Duration: 44 seconds

Release Date: April 24, 2020

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