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A rich, cosmic landscape is split in two. On the right side, clouds of reddish-black dust billow. On the left, stars sparkle across a dark-blue background.

The Day of the Trifid Nebula

NASA celebrates Hubble’s 36th anniversary with a new image of the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region it first captured in 1997. The telescope leveraged almost its full operational lifetime to show us changes in the nebula on human time scales with an improved camera.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

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TakenApril 20, 2026
Image CreditNASA, ESA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
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