ESA Shares Images of Cosmic Colour to Wish Holi

The European Space Agency (ESA) participated in the celebration and shared pictures of two colourful nebulae captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The agency took its Instagram handle and said, “Cosmic colours for your Holi and Purim parties. We are celebrating the Hindu festival of colours and the Jewish feast of lots with these colourful Hubble captures of two nebulae.”

“The celestial cloudscape shows the vibrant region encircling the Herbig-Haro object HH 505 in the first two photos. Herbig-Haro objects, which are bright regions surrounding newborn stars, are produced as stellar winds or jets of gas ejected by newborn stars crash with nearby gas and dust at high speeds,” the agency added.

“In the case of HH 505, these outflows originate from the star IX Ori, which lies on the outskirts of the Orion Nebula around 1000 light-years from Earth,” the agency said.

 

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