Recently, the European Space Agency (ESA) shared a photograph of a monster-looking celestial body captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The image features a portion of a pillar forming a star, which is part of a massive nebula.
NASA, which also operates Hubble, has used different wavelengths to take various images of the Carina Nebula. Those include a cosmic structure X-ray snapshot taken by the Chandra Observatory of the department.
The X-ray image has revealed several bright spots within a nebula region, according to NASA. The agency has explained that these could indicate that several massive stars have already died and exploded in the region. The supernova remnants of stars may be the light spots.
"Chandra's X-ray vision provides strong evidence that massive stars have self-destructed in this nearby star-forming region," NASA said. "Firstly, there is an observed deficit of bright X-ray sources in the area known as Trumpler 15, suggesting that some of the massive stars in this cluster were already destroyed in supernova explosions."
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What is it called?
The galaxy known as NGC 2608 is a spiral galaxy stretched out-much like the Milky Way-that is "sweeping" across the universe, NASA said.
NGC 2608 is a staggering 93 million light-years from Earth, with more than six trillion miles in one light year. The galaxy is vast, measuring 64,000 light-years across the universe, and is found in the constellation of Cancer.
"The peppered blue and red spiral arms are anchored together by the prominent horizontal central bar of the galaxy," NASA explained. The space agency added NGC 2608 is just one among an "uncountable number of related structures."
The Hubble Space Telescope will soon be replaced by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2021. The JWST is so strong it will reach back to the furthest realms and the universe's earliest moments.
Named after NASA's second administrator James Webb, JWST can scan thousands of planets for alien life - even though those planets are thousands of light-years away.
One of the big discrepancies between Hubble and JWST will be how far it will be able to see back in time.
Hubble can see far into space and looks back in time as light travels to the craft.
Experts were able to observe the formation of the first galaxies via Hubble, around one billion years after the Big Bang.
