Cauldron

To celebrate its 33rd birthday, the iconic Hubble Space Telescope has taken yet another breathtaking image of our universe. The image, which encompasses a region of space in the Perseus molecular cloud, is vibrant and colorful from top to bottom. NASA says that Hubble captured the image by peering through a veil of dust on the edge of the cold molecular cloud made of the raw material needed to fabricate new stars and planets. The image, the space agency says, highlights how messy the formation of new stars is…

Hubble’s 33rd anniversary image unveils the mesmerizing chaos of star birth within the dark nebula NGC 1333, offering a glimpse into the early days of our own solar system. Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI; Image Processing: Varun Bajaj (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Jennifer Mack (STScI)Dark Nebula is a Cauldron of Star BirthYou should know where you come from, but understanding the birth of our Sun and family of planets is largely sketchy because it happened 4.6 billion years ago. Trying to imagine far back in time,…