Hubble's 33rd Anniversary: Dark Nebula is a Cauldron of Star Birth

NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 33rd birthday with an ethereal image of a nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333.

Located approximately 960 light-years away in the Perseus interstellar cloud, Hubble’s colorful view unveils glowing gasses and pitch-black dust stirred up, colliding, and blown around by several hundred forming stars within the dark cloud.

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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Dr. Jennifer Wiseman: Narration