Embargoed Until: 1:00 a.m. (EST) March 2, 2000

Hubble Takes a Close-up View of a Reflection Nebula in Orion

Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture of NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion. The Heritage astronomers, in collaboration with scientists in Texas and Ireland, used Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) to obtain the color image.

Image Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)