To celebrate Hubble's 26th birthday photographing the universe, NASA released awesome images the telescope captured of the "Bubble Nebula" — which looks like a giant soap bubble in space.
The giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020) are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, 163,000 light ...
The Bubble Nebula is located 7,100 light-years from Earth and is 45 times more massive than our Sun. Gas on the star gets so hot that it escapes away into space as a stellar wind moving at over ...