{"id":60291,"date":"2025-09-12T21:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/60291\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:01:09","slug":"hubble-surveys-cloudy-cluster-nasa-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/60291\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Surveys Cloudy Cluster &#8211; NASA Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This new NASA\/ESA <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> image features a cloudy starscape from an impressive star cluster. This scene is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa. With a mass equal to 10\u201320% of the mass of the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest of the dozens of small galaxies that orbit our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>The Large Magellanic Cloud is home to several massive stellar nurseries where gas clouds, like those strewn across this image, coalesce into new stars. Today\u2019s image depicts a portion of the galaxy\u2019s second-largest star-forming region, which is called N11. (The most massive and prolific star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/science\/explore-the-night-sky\/hubble-caldwell-catalog\/caldwell-103\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tarantula Nebula<\/a>, is a frequent target for Hubble.) We see bright, young stars lighting up the gas clouds and sculpting clumps of dust with powerful ultraviolet radiation.<\/p>\n<p>This image marries observations made roughly 20 years apart, a testament to Hubble\u2019s longevity. The first set of observations, which were carried out in 2002\u20132003, capitalized on the exquisite sensitivity and resolution of the then-newly-installed <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/observatory\/design\/advanced-camera-for-surveys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advanced Camera for Surveys<\/a>. Astronomers turned Hubble toward the N11 star cluster to do something that had never been done before at the time: catalog all the stars in a young cluster with masses between 10% of the Sun\u2019s mass and 100 times the Sun\u2019s mass.<\/p>\n<p>The second set of observations came from Hubble\u2019s newest camera, the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/observatory\/design\/wide-field-camera-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wide Field Camera 3<\/a>. These images focused on the dusty clouds that permeate the cluster, providing us with a new perspective on cosmic dust.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Claire Andreoli<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/hubble-surveys-cloudy-cluster\/mailto:claire.andreoli@nasa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>claire.andreoli@nasa.gov<\/strong><\/a>)<br \/><strong>NASA&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/goddard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Goddard Space Flight Center<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<strong>Greenbelt, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This new NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a cloudy starscape from an impressive star cluster. 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