--- title: Hubble Photographs Gorgeous Cosmic Nursery description: The Hubble Space Telescope has given us a gift on the occasion of its own 24th birthday. Like nearly all of the riches Hubble has... canonical: https://time.com/27089/hubble-star-nursery-picture/ author: Jeffrey Kluger article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-17T15:31:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T06:48:03.682Z article:section: Science og:title: Gorgeous picture of a place where stars are born og:description: The Hubble Space Telescope has given us a gift on the occasion of its own 24th birthday. Like nearly all of the riches Hubble has... og:url: https://time.com/27089/hubble-star-nursery-picture/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt454cd8ac24ae464e/698685c01eebf7163f36fdb8/hubble-anniversary-star-factory.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: An infrared image of a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula (also known as NGC 2174 and Sharpless Sh2-252) captured by the Hubble telescope, released on March 17, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Gorgeous picture of a place where stars are born twitter:description: The Hubble Space Telescope has given us a gift on the occasion of its own 24th birthday. 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An infrared image of a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula (also known as NGC 2174 and Sharpless Sh2-252) captured by the Hubble telescope, released on March 17, 2014\. The nebula is a star-forming region that hosts dusky dust clouds silhouetted against glowing gas. NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Mar 17, 2014 3:31 PM UTC The Hubble Space Telescope has given us a gift on the occasion of its own 24th birthday. Like nearly all of the riches Hubble has showered down on us over nearly a quarter of a century, the newest one is a picture—this time of the wonderfully named Monkey Head Nebula, 6,400 light years from Earth. The region of the nebula that’s shown is a stellar nursery, a place new stars churn into existence. As they release energy, the infant suns blow off cosmic dust (at the right of the image); the ultraviolet light they generate sculpts the remaining dust into pillars. Space, as Hubble has revealed again and again, is a place of sublime violence—and sublime beauty too. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/27089/hubble-star-nursery-picture/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/27089/hubble-star-nursery-picture/"},"headline":"Shhhh! Don't Disturb the Baby Stars","datePublished":"2014-03-17T15:31:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:48:03.682Z","description":"The Hubble Space Telescope has given us a gift on the occasion of its own 24th birthday. 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