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A large rare population of hot, bright stars inside the hub of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, is seen through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in this undated handout photo released January 11, 2012. Blue is typically an indicator of hot, young stars. In this case, however, the stellar...

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Attached to the "robot arm" the Hubble Space Telescope is unberthed and lifted up into the sunlight during this the second servicing mission designated HST SM-02 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in this NASA handout photo dated February 19, 1997.

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Star V838 Monocerotis's (V838 Mon) light echo, which is about six light years in diameter, is seen from the Hubble Space Telescope in this February 2004 handout photo released by NASA on December 4, 2011. Light from the flash is reflected by successively more distant rings in the...

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Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md. , speaks at a news conference in front of a replica of the James Webb Space Telescope, the planned successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, in Baltimore, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. Mikulski is leading a fight in Congress to secure funding for the over-budget...

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This unique image from NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope from early 2009 features Saturn with the rings edge-on and both poles in view, offering a double view of its fluttering auroras, in this image release by NASA March 22, 2011. Created by the interaction of the solar wind with the...

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In this image taken July 2, 2011 provided by NASA Thursday Aug. 11, 2011 a giant cosmic necklace glows brightly in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The object, aptly named the Necklace Nebula, is a recently discovered planetary nebula, the glowing remains of an ordinary, Sun-like star.

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Supernova remnant 0509-67.5, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy about 170,000 light-years from Earth is pictured in this NASA/ESA handout released January 11, 2012. Optical data of the supernova remnant and its accompanying star field, taken with the Hubble...

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A composite image (L), taken in visible and near-infrared light, reveals the location of five tiny galaxies clustered together 13.1 billion light-years away in this January 10, 2012 handout. The circles pinpoint the galaxies. Astronomers uncovered the cluster, the most distant such...

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This image provided by NASA combines two labeled images of the Pluto system taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 ultraviolet visible instrument with a newly discovered fourth moon P4 circled. NASA announced Wednesday, July 20, 2011 that the Hubble Space Telescope...

Reuters Pictures 8 months ago

Astronaut F. Story Musgrave, anchored on the end of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm, prepares to be elevated to the top of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to install protective covers on the magnetometers aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-61) in this NASA handout photo...

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David Hughes, director of the world's largest millimeter telescope, shows on a screen an image of Galaxy M82 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, during an interview with Reuters television in the Sierra Negra Volcano June 21, 2011. The superimposed spectrum shows molecular gas detected...

Reuters Pictures 8 months ago

The galaxy M82 is seen in this optical image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released by Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (INAOE) in Puebla on June 21, 2011. The superimposed spectrum shows the molecular gas detected by the Large Millimeter Telescope...

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This false-color mosaic provided by NASA from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the tail of Saturn's huge northern storm, top. The storm's 200-day active period also makes it the longest-lasting planet-encircling storm ever seen on Saturn. The previous record holder was an outburst...

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This full-field image of the nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is shown as released by NASA May 12, 2011. Episodes of star formation are revealed as the galaxy continues to form clusters of new stars from its interstellar gas and dust. The Hubble...

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Jeff Grant, vice president and general manager for Northrop Grumman's Space Systems Division, looks at a replica of the James Webb Space Telescope after a news conference to advocate for further funding for the over-budget project in Baltimore, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. The telescope,...

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In this image provided Wednesday April 20, 2011 by NASA the Hubble Space Telescope photographed an especially photogenic group of interacting galaxies called Arp 273. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by the...

Reuters Pictures 8 months ago

Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off as the shuttle Endeavour stands at right, ready for a rescue mission if needed, from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida in this May 11, 2009 file photo. Atlantis blasted off from its Florida launch pad on Monday on an 11-day mission to...

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The space shuttle Atlantis (foreground) sits on Launch Pad A and the space shuttle Endeavour on Launch Pad B (above) at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida September 20, 2008. For the first time since July 2001, two shuttles are on the launch pads at the same time. ...

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In this dated February 2, 2010 filed photo shows National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Charles Bolden attends the National Press Club Newsmaker Program in Washington, DC. The US space shuttle is part cargo truck, part passenger bus, part airplane built for...