The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) is designed to document the first third of galactic evolution, over the approximate redshift (z) range 8-1.5. Weiner, Tommy Wiklind, Vivienne Wild, Grant Wilson, Stijn Wuyts, Hao Jing Yan, Min S. Trump, Arjen Van Der Wel, Carolin Villforth, Risa H. Straughn, Louis Gregory Strolger, Olivia Telford, Harry I. Rosario, Piero Rosati, Sara Salimbeni, Claudia Scarlata, Brian Siana, Luc Simard, Joseph Smidt, Rachel S. Reddy, Alvio Renzini, Hans Walter Rix, Aday R. Primack, Abhijith Rajan, Swara Ravindranath, Naveen A. Papovich, Laura Pentericci, Alexandra Pope, Joel R. Moustakas, Mark Mozena, Kirpal Nandra, Jeffrey A. Koo, Kamson Lai, Kyoung Soo Lee, Weidong Li, Jennifer M.
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De Mello, Avishai Dekel, Mark Dickinson, Timothy Dolch, Jennifer L. Croton, Emanuele Daddi, Tomas Dahlen, Romeel Davé, Duília F. Conselice, Asantha Roshan Cooray, Darren J. Caputi, Stefano Casertano, Paolo Cassata, Marco Castellano, Peter Challis, Ranga Ram Chary Show 87 others Show less Edmond Cheung, Michele Cirasuolo, Christopher J. Summers ( STScI) Music: "Cosmic Reef" by J.Norman A. While Hubble views NGC 2020 looking down on top of the stellar outflows, the visualization finishes with a side view that illustrates the nebula's double-lobed structure.Ĭredits: NASA, ESA, G. Episodes of outbursts from the young star have produced cloudy rings and clumps in the bright blue gas. The Wolf-Rayet star at its core is the mammoth, intensely hot source of this nebula. The camera then rises up and over a ridge of NGC 2014, revealing the three-dimensional structure of neighboring NGC 2020. The virtual flight moves past ridges, valleys, and pockets of new star formation. In contrast, the dark, denser gas is resisting that radiation, and is blown back to form craggy, mountainous shapes.
The glowing gas in this region is bathed in the stars' intense luminosity. The journey continues into the heart of the nebula, home to extraordinarily massive and bright stars. Energetic ultraviolet light from the system’s most massive stars has heated the gas, while strong stellar winds (streams of charged particles) help create its bubble structure. The first stop is the bubble of hot gas on the left that has a coral-like appearance. The camera then flies past myriad stars for a close-up look at NGC 2014. The region has been nicknamed the "Cosmic Reef," because of its resemblance to an undersea world.
COSMIC VIEW DEEP DOWN MOVIE
The movie begins with the view of NGC 2014 (lower left) and NGC 2020 (upper right), as observed by Hubble. The visualization is an interpretation of the nebulas' complex structure and is based on images by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The video takes viewers on a close-up tour of the nebulas' three-dimensional structures, as deduced by scientists and artists. This science visualization presents the dramatic landscape of two nebulas in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Flyby Offers Journey into a Majestic Star-Forming Region