# NGC 2014, NGC 2020 - HST - Heic2007a

- By: Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI
- Date: 24 April 2020, 13:00 (Release)
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: https://spacetelescope.org/images/heic2007a/ https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/large/heic2007a.jpg
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NGC_2014,_NGC_2020_-_HST_-_Heic2007a.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/f/f4/NGC_2014%2C_NGC_2020_-_HST_-_Heic2007a.jpg/1920px-NGC_2014%2C_NGC_2020_-_HST_-_Heic2007a.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.