On April 24th, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrated it's 20th year in orbit. To commemorate the event, NASA released the photo above.
What you are looking at, is a Nebula, basically a nursery for stars. This nebula is estimated to be approximately 6,500 to 10,000 light years away from Earth. The picture taken is 3.1 light years wide. In other words it would take you 3.1 years to cross from one side of the picture to the other, IF you were traveling at the speed of light (which just happens to be 670,616,629.4 miles per hour).
With the impending shut down of the Hubble program, I only hope that we get to see even more stunning pictures of our universe.
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