Festive Nebulas Light Up Milky Way Galaxy Satellite

Festive Nebulas Light Up Milky Way Galaxy Satellite: Our HubblLight Up Milky Way Galaxy Satellitee Space Telescope captured two festive-looking nebulas, situated so as to appear as one. They reside in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is a satellite of our Milky Way galaxy. Intense radiation from the brilliant central stars is heating hydrogen in each of the nebulas, causing them to glow red.

Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, K. Sandstrom (University of California, San Diego), and the SMIDGE team

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