Hubble Telescope Catches A Great Wave for Celebration
Astronomers have caught a cosmic wave to celebrate the 24th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch.
The latest picture, released Monday , reminds the Hubble team of The Great Wave, a 19th-century print by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. This wave is a cosmic crest of hydrogen gas and dust in the Monkey Head Nebula, a star-forming region 6,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion. Hubble’s infrared view shows how the dusty cloud is being sculpted by ultraviolet light from hot stars in the center of the nebula.
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