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News: Hubble Space Telescope captured picture of NGC 2014 and NGC 2020. The picture has been dubbed as Cosmic Reef
Facts:
- Giant red nebula (called NGC 2014) and a smaller blue nebula (called NGC 2020) are part of a star-forming complex located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- The structure is often called the Cosmic Reef because of coral-like appearance.
Hubble Space Telescope
- It is a space-borne observatory and is part of NASA’s “Great Observatories. It was deployed in 1990.
- It was built by NASA with contributions from the European Space Agency. It is the largest optical telescope ever launched into space.
Additional Facts:
Nebula:
- It is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space.
- Some nebulae come from the gas and dust thrown out by the explosion of a dying star, such as a supernova.
- Other nebulae are regions where new stars are beginning to form. For this reason, they are also called “star nurseries.
NASA’s series of Great Observatories satellites:
- They are four large, powerful space-based astronomical telescopes.
- The telescopes other than Hubble Space Telescope, are Spitzer Space Telescope, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
