New Hubble Pic Shows a Chaotic Cauldron of Stars Being Born

NASA, ESA, and STScI; Image Processing: Varun Bajaj (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Jennifer Mack (STScI)It’s been a big day for space fans. Not only did SpaceX’s Starship rocket successfully launch—before exploding in a fireball much to CEO Elon Musk’s chagrin—but the Hubble Space Telescope is also celebrating its 33rd anniversary.To help ring in the occasion, NASA released a brand new image captured by the orbital telescope… and it’s absolutely astounding. Take a look:The pic is of a dark nebula called NGC 1333 located roughly 960 lightyears away from Earth in the Perseus molecular cloud. These areas are also known as “star cradles” since the region contains plenty of cosmic dust and ionized hydrogen for stars to form.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here