Celebrating 25 Years with Another Great Image
This is what you get when scientists peer into the heart of a starbirth region: lots of hot young stars, radiating ultraviolet light and blasting out strong winds that are eating away at the leftovers of their birth cloud. The still image of this is amazing, but when you let visualization experts loose on it, you get an amazing flythrough of a stellar créche. The object Hubble Space Telescope observed is called Gum 28, which lies about 20,000 light-years away from us.
As we glide through the remains of the birth clouds, we’re aimed directly at a cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2. They are about 2 million years old, which makes them toddlers compared to stars like our Sun, which is about 4.5 billion years old.
Put on some good space music and sail through the stars.
I love that video! Is there any way I can get a copy to use in astronomy lessons at our planetarium?
Hi, I found it at Hubblesite.org and click on “NewsCenter”. It’s today’s release.
Which planetarium?
Thanks for writing!
Thanks! I’m definitely downloading that for future presentations.
I work at the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center – http://spacecenter.alpineschools.org/ Almost all of the planetarium shows I do are for field trip groups.
Happy to help!
What kind of planetarium do you have?
Just visited your web site.