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NASA Hubble Telescope captures mesmerizing 4-mn year old Nebula bubble

NASA’s Hubble Telescope has shared a breathtaking Nebula Bubble, which is 4 million years old.

By: HT TECH
| Updated on: Oct 10 2022, 21:13 IST
Wow! Second by second account of NASA craft crashing on Asteroid; check in photos
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1/5 NASA’s Double Asteroid Detection Test or DART test is a nearly $330 million mission to smash a spacecraft into the Dimorphos asteroid to deflect it away from its path. NASA had already sent the DART spacecraft to space in November, 2021 which included a satellite made by the Italian Space Agency. (Bloomberg)
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2/5 This stunning photo was captured 2.5 minutes before collision with the target Asteroid Dimorphos. According to NASA, the target asteroid Dimorphos is an asteroid moonlet nearly 530 feet in width. Dimorphos orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos, nearly 5 times its size. (Reuters)
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3/5 This amazing image was captured just 11 seconds before the impact. captured through cameras of a small companion satellite, which was the spacecraft’s camera called cubeSAT LICIACube (Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids), was ejected from the DART spacecraft and followed it, 3 minutes behind, to the target asteroid Dimorphos. (Reuters)
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4/5 This extremely close-up image of the surface of target asteroid Dimorphos was captured just 2 seconds before impact with the asteroid. The DRACO system along with Small-body Maneuvering Autonomous Real Time Navigation (SMART Nav) algorithms aboard the DART spacecraft allowed it to distinguish between the larger Didymos and its target Dimorphos, striking the asteroid with precision accuracy, according to NASA. (Reuters)
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5/5 Although the spacecraft successfully collided with the asteroid, there is no clarity as yet whether the asteroid was actually deflected. To confirm that, European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft will observe the impact caused by the collision of DART spacecraft and Dimorphos asteroid. The space agency has already launched its Hera spacecraft which will travel to the same asteroid to observe the impact. (ESA)
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The cosmic bubble wrap of Bubble Nebula is 7100 light-years away from Earth, NASA revealed. (NASA )

Even after 32 years of service, NASA's old Hubble Space Telescope has captured another breathtaking glimpse from deep space, revealing the cosmic Bubble Nebula. The stunning image depicts one of the most famous star bubbles, a cosmic bubble wrap which is 7100 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. NASA shared the image on its Instagram account while revealing that this Nebula has a star 45 times more massive than our own.⁣

While sharing the picture, NASA says, "Gas on the star gets so hot that it escapes into space at a speed of 4 million miles per hour (6.4 million kilometers per hour); when the hot "stellar wind" meets the surrounding rigidness of space, it folds and forms an outer edge." It further explains the that it has dense columns of cool hydrogen gas and space dust can be seen at the upper left and center of the photo.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera-3 depicts Nebula in visible light and shows off its brilliant colours. The green tints refer to the presence of hydrogen, oxygen is blue, while the red hues suggest the presence of nitrogen. NASA has revealed that the star is about 4 million years old and will become a supernova in the next 10-20 million years.⁣

While describing the image, NASA also says that you may also see some yellow and gold clouds transition to green hues in the image, which meets the blackness of space.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has already exceeded its age limit! NASA has revealed that the Hubble Telescope was designed to last roughly 15 years when it was launched in 1990. But thanks to the five successful astronaut servicing missions, and as a result, the telescope's technology has been modified and improved, "and the telescope remains scientifically productive to this day."

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First Published Date: 10 Oct, 20:50 IST
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