NASA celebrates Hubble Space Telescope's 28th birthday
Channel: Александр Юрьевич Чукланов
Date: 2018-04-25

NASA celebrates Hubble Space Telescope's 28th birthday with this stunning picture of the Lagoon Nebula
Hubble has captured the power of Herschel 36 - a young star in the Lagoon Nebula
The Hubble Space Telescope has hit the ripe old age of 28.
And to celebrate, NASA has revealed another picture from the orbiting spacecraft, showing the Lagoon Nebula - located about 4,000 light years away from Earth.
It's the latest astonishing picture from the Hubble Space Telescope, which has captured over 1.3 million observations since its mission began back in 1990.
In the centre of the image above is a young star that's around 200,000 times brighter than our sun.
It's blasting out powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds, carving out a fantasy landscape of ridges, cavities, and mountains of gas and dust.
The star is called Herschel 36 and astronomers are using Hubble to witness its power.
"The hefty star is 32 times more massive than our Sun and its temperature is 40,000 degrees kelvin; it is nearly nine times our Sun’s diameter," explained NASA.
"Herschel 36 is still very active because it is young by a star’s standards, only 1 million years old. Based on its mass, it will live for another 5 million years. In comparison, our smaller Sun is 5 billion years old and will live another 5 billion years."