Magellanic firestorm

The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 100,000th orbit by capturing nearby stellar activity

To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 100,000th orbit, astronomers aimed the observatory at a firestorm of stellar activity in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

MAGELLANIC FIRESTORM The Hubble Space Telescope captured this hotbed of star activity in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud.