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NGC 2014, NGC 2020 - HST - Heic2007a
24 April 2020, 13:00 (Release)
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- https://spacetelescope.org/images/heic2007a/ https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/large/heic2007a.jpg
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
This image is 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. The image is nicknamed the “Cosmic Reef” because it resembles an undersea world.
