UPI Science News By Danielle Haynes June 29, 2022 / 6:29 PM
50 Out-of-this-world images from space
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This satellite image from June 14 shows a brush fire, sparked by a vehicle fire, near Bush Highway and Arizona State Route 87.
By June 16, nearly 65,000 acres northeast of Phoenix had burned, making the Bush Fire the largest in the state this year and
the largest burning now in the United States. Photo courtesy of NASA
This image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the NASA/ESA Hubble Space
Telescope has observed during its 30-year lifetime. The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbor
NGC 2020, which together form part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the
Milky Way, about 163,000 light-years away. The image is nicknamed the "Cosmic Reef" because it resembles an undersea world.
The Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation, one of Hubble's most iconic images, shows the pillars as seen in visible light, capturing
the multi-colored glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-colored elephants' trunks of the
nebula's famous pillars. With these new images comes better contrast and a clearer view for astronomers to study how
the structure of the pillars is changing over time.
The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) aboard Hubble snapped this image of the planetary nebula, cataloged as NGC 6302, but
more popularly called the Bug Nebula or the Butterfly Nebula, on July 27, 2009. NGC 6302 lies within our Milky Way galaxy,
roughly 3800 light-years away. The "butterfly" stretches for more than two light-years, which is nearly half the distance
from the Sun to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri.
