Zooming Into the Cosmic Reef

This video zooms into one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed during its 30-year lifetime. The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020 which together form part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 163 000 light-years away.

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Credit:
ESA/Hubble, NASA, Digitized Sky Survey 2, L. Calçada. Music: Astral Electronic