The cosmic reef

This scientific visualization explores the landscape of two nebulae, NGC 2014 (lower left), and NGC 2020 (upper right) imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope for its 30th birthday.

This visualization holds a special place in my heart. Hubble’s 30th birthday was in April 2020, and most of us remember what March 2020 was like. The visualization team had begun the process of creating the visualization before the Covid shutdowns begun, and we had to quickly learn a new production pipeline from home to complete the visualization for the release date. The project brought our small team closer together, and it’s one of the few things I can be thankful of in that strange time.

Learn more about the visualization process here and about the image here.