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Apr 11

NASA's Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with 'Rose' of Galaxies

Sources: NASA/HST and ESA Hubble Information Centre


Arp 273. Image credits:NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., pointed Hubble's eye at an especially photogenic pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273.(read more)

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