The Hubble Space Telescope started yesterday at 7:42 Eastern time its 100,000^th trip around the Earth. In order to properly honor the event, a team of astronomers led by Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute, decided to take a special photo of a galaxy known as the Large Megellanic Cloud.

The image captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 presents a part of a breathtaking nebula found in the neighborhood of the star cluster NGC 2074 and it includes a “firestorm of raw stellar creation,” which astronomers believe to be the result of a recent supernova explosion.

The NGC 2074 is considered "one of the most active star-forming regions in our local group of galaxies," as NASA’s officials described it, and it is found near the Tarantula nebula at about 170,000 light-years away.

The HST was launched in April 1990 and has traveled so far an approximate distance of 2.72 billion miles. "That's a lot of orbits and that represents a lot of miles and a lot of time," said HST deputy senior project scientist Malcolm Niedner. "It's been just a fabulous long journey of scientific discoveries, with more to come," he added.

The telescope’s substantial help with the astronomy’s progress over the last 19 years is widely recognized, and according to the scientists involved in the studies, there are still many more projects that will demand its assistance.

Since its launch it has taken more than 750,000 photos of distant never before seen places and has offered answers to many questions related to our surroundings.