Yesterday, April 24, 2015 Space Telescope, NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched into space on 24 April 1990 aboard the space shuttle Discovery, celebrated the 25th anniversary of his stay in Earth orbit.
Especially for this anniversary, NASA experts have chosen the official image – great shot of the star cluster Westerlund 2, consisting of more than 3 thousand stars located next to the gas cloud at a distance of 29 Gum 20 thousand light years from Earth. This exciting image is a clear demonstration of the Space Telescope, and on the basis NASA specialists have created videos, viewing which can make a trip to this area because of space, as if it’s all happening in reality, writes IT News
Snapshot and video, prepared jointly by experts STScI NASA (NASA Space Telescope Science Institute) and the European Space Agency, show how spectacular views of the depths of the universe can provide us with “watchful eye” Hubble Space Telescope and the important role he played in the study of human beings the depths of outer space. In this case, the image cluster Westerlund 2 has been made in the range of visible light camera Advanced Camera for Survey, and the infrared component of the image was obtained using the Wide Field Camera Camera 3.
Thanks to his camera Wide Field Camera 3 , allows you to shoot in a range of far-infrared light, Hubble telescope has the ability to see objects that are hidden behind thick clouds of cosmic gas and dust. In this case, hiding behind the clouds of the cluster Westerlund 2. The figure shows a picture with different colors clouds of gas, having a different composition, for example, the red color shows the area with a high concentration of hydrogen. Young stars are visible in the image as red bright dots scattered throughout the image area in the foreground you can see many more bright blue stars, stars in the age of the “heyday of their forces”.
The rapid increase the number of young stars, intensive processes of their formation, in other words, make this region of space the subject of increased interest on the part of scientists and astronomers. Watching the development of this area, scientists receive a lot of interesting information regarding the intricacies of the formation of individual stars and star clusters, which occur almost equally in all areas of the boundless universe.
In addition to the displayed image, NASA and ESA experts have created a a gallery of 25 images, each of which represents a single year of “life” of the telescope Hubble. And with this gallery extraordinarily beautiful images of the cosmos can be found by clicking on this address.
Source: dailytechinfo.org
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