哈勃空间望远镜拍摄M20一角

哈勃空间望远镜在服役超过三十年后，依然保持着活跃的观测状态。为庆祝其36周年纪念，天文学家发布了一张三叶星云（M20）的全新影像。

Life in space is hard. Most orbiting observatories retire well before their 20th birthday. Yet the Hubble Space Telescope has survived and continues to thrive well into its 30s. Astronomers celebrated the observatory’s 36th birthday in April by releasing a new image of the Trifid Nebula (M20). This stellar nursery lies about 5,000 light-years from Continue reading "Hubble captures a corner of M20" The post Hubble captures a corner of M20 appeared first on Astronomy Magazine .