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To celebrate Hubble's 35th anniversary, ViewSpace released an interactive image slider that shows the new Hubble Rosette Nebula image in context.

Here is the Rosette nebula in infrared, visible, visible with the Hubble detail image, and ultraviolet light.

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An infrared wavelength image of the Rosette Nebula. The nebula contains two concentric layers of gas and dust. The inner layer contains dust that appears red from the center to about half the length of the image, and dust that appears green from that point to the edge. The green dust forms a series of peaks and ridges with pillar-like protrusions that point towards the center of the nebula. Toward the top left, top right, and bottom right, the nebula becomes more diffuse, giving way to the black background of space. Throughout these clouds of gas and dust are many young, bright blue stars of different sizes. There are also a few yellow stars spread around the bottom left of the nebula, with a particularly bright yellow star displaying an eight-pronged diffraction pattern. A visible wavelength image of the Rosette Nebula. The center of the nebula contains a cavity filled with blue stars of different sizes and diffuse blue gas. This cavity is surrounded by a layer of yellow gas, which itself gives way to another concentric circle layer of red gas. The gas mixes in between, creating an orange gas. Column-like pillars of denser gas and dust point towards the central star cluster, forming ridges dotted with smaller dark globules at the edges of the layers. A particularly prominent darker ridge in the yellow layer curves from about 12 o’clock to 3 o’clock. At about the 1 o’clock position, a long pillar with a two-pronged end, which looks a little like a wrench, extends from the ridge towards the center. Toward the corners of the image, the gas becomes more diffuse, giving way to the black background of space. White stars of different sizes and are spread throughout the gas in the nebula. The same view of the visible wavelength Rosette Nebula slide with an overlaid image. The colors of the nebula from the Visible slide have been muted to focus on a dense segment of dust, which has been highlighted by a dotted white box at the center-right of the image. This is a small segment of the prominent dust ridge. This box connects to a magnified image of this area to the left. The pulled-out image shows a dark gray V that looks like thick smoke. This structure extends from just below bottom right all the way up to the top left corner and back down toward the bottom left. Behind the dark gray on the left side, from the bottom center to top right, there is dust that looks like arced claw marks that appears in light orange and yellow. The background at bottom right is hazier, the blues are covered in semi-transparent orange wisps, making a few sections take on green hues. In the top left, the background is bluer. There are a few bright red and purple stars scattered along the left half, most toward the top. The largest star is at left-center, just at the edge. It is red and has four diffraction spikes. An ultraviolet image of the Rosette Nebula, which appears black and white. There are several white stars of different sizes, with the biggest concentrated toward the center. The nebula appears as faint cloud spread throughout the image, with similar structures to those seen in the visible light view.
April 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM