An astronomy teacher at Pomfret School in Connecticut, USA, won first prize in the Hubble's Hidden Treasures image processing competition. The competition invited members of the public to dig out unreleased scientific data from Hubble's vast archive, and to process them into stunning images. Lake's image is of a particularly bright region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is located some 200,000 light-years from Earth. The gas within it slowly collapses to form new stars. In turn, the stars light up the gas clouds. In this particular winning image shows both star forming regions as well as dusty, planet-forming regions made of material from stars that have died. The Hubble archive remains open, and the outreach team invites others to search it for more hidden treasures.
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Pomfret School: "To Infinity and Beyond" - at Least to Harvard
Hubble Telescope: A hidden treasure in the Large Magellanic Cloud
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