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Hubblecast 73: Hubble revisits the Monkey Head Nebula for 24th birthday snap

The ESA astronomy podcast, bringing you the latest from the Hubble Space Telescope

17 March 2014

In April of this year, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope will be celebrating 24 years of observing. To celebrate this milestone, the observatory is releasing a brand new image of part of NGC 2174, otherwise known as the Monkey Head Nebula. This new Hubblecast episode showcases this beautiful image, which views a colourful region filled with young stars embedded among bright wisps of cosmic gas and dust.

This image is to be unveiled at the Science with the Hubble Space Telescope IV conference, held at the prestigious Accademia dei Lincei in Rome from 17–20 March 2014.

Credit:

ESA/Hubble

Directed by: Georgia Bladon
Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser
Written by: Nicola Guttridge/Georgia Bladon & Nikita Marwaha
Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa
Images: NASA, ESA
- New image of NGC 2174: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Videos: Zoom video: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Music: Steve Buick
Web and technical support: Mathias Andre and Raquel Yumi Shida
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen