The Hubble Space Telescope, an international collaboration of NASA and the European Space Agency, celebrated 30 years of unlocking the beauty and mystery of space on April 24 by unveiling a stunning new portrait of a “Cosmic Reef.”
The image is nicknamed “Cosmic Reef,” because it resembles an undersea world, but it’s actually a firestorm of star birth in a nearby galaxy, NASA said.
The red nebula and its blue neighbor are part of a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, according to NASA.
The telescope is named after U.S. astronomer Edwin Hubble.
