“He not busy being born is busy dying.” So said Bob Dylan in “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding).”

As shown in a new picture of stormy star birth in a nearby galaxy, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the cosmos is keeping up the tradition of both birth and death. Stars are being born out of the ashes of old ones, forever refreshing the universe.

The picture was released Friday by the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, keepers of the Hubble, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the launch of that telescope on April 24, 1990.

That, too, was a time of darkness and rebirth in our world. Astronomers had dreamed for half a century of a telescope in space above the distorting and absorbing effects of the atmosphere, but that dream of a new rebirth for astronomy almost died when the telescope was launched and astronomers found they couldn’t focus it. The primary mirror had been ground to the wrong shape.