The Hubble space telescope continues to work more than 30 years after its launch, observing the universe and sending home images to marvel. This week, POT And ESA highlighted an image captured by the Hubble of the highly productive nebula tarantula (officially called 30 Doradus) in the great cloud of Magellan, and is a show worthy of contemplating.
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The nebula of the tarantula is “the largest and most productive star formation region of the local universe”, with approximately 200 times more massive stars than the sun in its center, according to NASA. This Hubble view gives us a look on the outskirts of the nebula, revealing layers of gas and colored stars. The nebula of the tarantula is within the great cloud of Magallanes, a nearby dwarf galaxy.
While the final result we see is full of bright colors, Hubble images initially appear on the gray scale. As As explained, “scientists can create a compound image taking exhibitions using different color filters in the telescope, assigning each filter a color that corresponds to the wavelength of that filter and combining the images.” The new image of the nebula of the tarantula not only represents the visible light, but also the ultraviolet and the infrared. In this case, the colors are assigned to those wavelengths that we cannot normally see.
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