Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
      fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation
                    written by a professional astronomer.

                                2020 April 25
    [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest
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                            Hubble's Cosmic Reef
                   Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]ESA, [5]STScI

   Explanation: [6]These bright ridges of interstellar gas and dust are
   bathed in energetic starlight. With its sea of young stars, the massive
   star-forming region NGC 2014 has been dubbed the Cosmic Reef. Drifting
   just off shore, the smaller NGC 2020, is an expansive blue-hued
   structure erupting from a single central [7]Wolf-Rayet star, 200,000
   times brighter than the Sun. [8]The cosmic frame spans some 600
   light-years within the [9]Large Magellanic Cloud 160,000 light-years
   away, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. A magnificent Hubble Space
   Telescope portrait, the image was released this week as part of a
   celebration to mark Hubble's 30th year [10]exploring the Universe from
   Earth orbit.

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    Authors & editors: [22]Robert Nemiroff ([23]MTU) & [24]Jerry Bonnell
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