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Our Hubble team is sharing a new galactic photo every day this week—learn more about these cosmic sights at https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/hubble-news/hubbles-galaxy-week/!
r/NASA is for anything related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the latest news, events, current and future missions, and more.
r/NASA is for anything related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the latest news, events, current and future missions, and more.
Our Hubble team is sharing a new galactic photo every day this week—learn more about these cosmic sights at https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/hubble-news/hubbles-galaxy-week/!
r/NASA is for anything related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the latest news, events, current and future missions, and more.
r/NASA is for anything related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the latest news, events, current and future missions, and more.
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You might also be interested in learning (if they didn't mention this) that you can track the ISS's location in real time—and get alerts when it passes over your town: https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/
r/NASA is for anything related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the latest news, events, current and future missions, and more.
r/NASA is for anything related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the latest news, events, current and future missions, and more.
From our original u/NASA post:
This Hubble pic shows a small region of the Westerhout 5 nebula, which lies about 7,000 light-years from Earth. Its bright red light comes from H-alpha emission, which occurs when a very energetic electron within a hydrogen atom loses a set amount of energy.
The dark bubble near the top of this image is a free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globule (or frEGG), a dense region of gas; frEGGs like this one are shielded from ionization and intense UV radiation, which may make them a key location for the formation of new stars.
This Hubble pic shows a small region of the Westerhout 5 nebula, which lies about 7,000 light-years from Earth. Its bright red light comes from H-alpha emission, which occurs when a very energetic electron within a hydrogen atom loses a set amount of energy.
The dark bubble near the top of this image is a free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globule (or frEGG), a dense region of gas; frEGGs like this one are shielded from ionization and intense UV radiation, which may make them a key location for the formation of new stars.