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History of Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captures a lumpy bubble of hot gas rising from a cauldron of glowing matter in Galaxy NGC 3079, located 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. Astronomers suspect the bubble is being blown by "winds" or high speed streams of particles, released during a burst of star formation. The bubble's lumpy surface has four columns of gaseous filaments towering above the galaxy's disc that whirl around in a vortex and are expelled into space.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineHistory of Hubble Space Telescope (HST). NASA/MSFC, 2001-08-16. Public domain. ID: 0300723.
