In the spirit of the Holidays and Christmas, NASA released the latest sighting of the Hubble Space Telescope, which captures a dazzling display of Yuletide-themed heavenly bodies with a dwarf galaxy's newborn stars. While space is filled with marvelous and colorful displays, this latest discovery captures the spirit of Christmas with its blue, red, white, and more hues in the distant location.
NASA Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Holiday-Themed Site
NASA shared a timely discovery of the Hubble Space Telescope this Yuletide season, and it is one fitting site as it features Holiday themes it. This latest capture by Hubble shows a dwarf irregular galaxy from 7 million light years away from the planet, found in the constellation Virgo, with its new stars displaying blue, red, white, orange, and more in its region.
According to NASA, this galaxy is a collection of as many as 1 billion stars but is only 1/100th of the stellar population inside the Milky Way galaxy.
This discovery was said to look like a "festive string of lights," and these are "swaddled in glowing cocoons of hot, pink hydrogen gas."
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UGC 8091: Dwarf Irregular Galaxy with Colorful New Stars
This dwarf irregular galaxy is known as UGC 8091, and it recently gave birth to new stars with these colorful displays in the dark region, as captured by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) via Hubble.
It is considered irregular as it does not portray the usual spiraling or elliptical look like most galaxies, with the twinkling holiday display made up of old and new stars, taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 from 2006 to 2021.
The Hubble Space Telescope: a 30-Year-Old Workhorse
Since 1990, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided its services to the world and was the top spacecraft to deliver the latest spotting of different space phenomena, with a long list of discoveries it gave the world. That being said, in its 33 years of age, Hubble has experienced a lot, and most recently, it saw a temporary pause in its operations after faulty readings were detected in its gyroscope.
Despite this setback, NASA's renowned 30-year-old workhorse is not yet done with giving the world new sights to see in the universe, it is still operating and capturing massive discoveries for all.
Recently, a celestial entity reminiscent of the famed "Evil Eye" was captured by the Hubble, with a mesmerizing blue glow formed around the spiral sight.
With the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) being the current-gen spacecraft and eyes in space currently operating, it was initially thought that Hubble's days were over.
However, the journeying decades-old telescope is still active, and it gave the world a jolly-good intergalactic site to marvel at during this season, with the dwarf galaxy's newborn stars capturing the spirit of Christmas.
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