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This image made by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the Eagle Nebula's "Pillars of Creation." The Hubble Space Telescope, one of NASA'S crowning glories, marks its 25th anniversary on Friday, April 24, 2015. With more than 1 million observations, Associated Press
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This image provided by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the striking details of the famed planetary nebula designated NGC 2818, which lies in the southern constellation of Pyxis (the Compass). The spectacular structure of the planetary nebula contains the Associated Press
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In this image provided by NASA/JSC, astronauts Steven L. Smith and John M. Grunsfeld are photographed during an extravehicular activity (EVA) during the December 1999 Hubble servicing mission of STS-103, flown by Discovery. The Hubble Space Telescope, one Associated Press
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A pair of one-half light-year long interstellar "twisters" appear in the "Hourglass" region of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) 5,000 light years from earth in the region of the constellation Sagittarius in this Hubble Space Telescope image released by NASA Associated Press, NASA
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In this image provided by NASA Thursday Oct. 2, 2008 shows landscape' image from the cosmos to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's Hubble Heritage Project. Cutting across a nearby star-forming region, called NGC 3324, are the "h Associated Press, nasa
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Resembling the fury of a raging sea, this image actually shows a bubbly ocean of glowing hydrogen gas and small amounts of other elements such as oxygen and sulfur. The photograph, taken, May 29-30, 1999 and released April 24, 2003 by NASA's Hubble Space Associated Press, NASA HUBBLE
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This photo, supplied by NASA and the European Space Agency on Monday, Dec. 11, 2006, shows Pismis 24-1, a bright young star that lies in the core of the small open star cluster Pismis 24, the bright stars in this Hubble Space Telescope image. It was one o Associated Press, NASA/ESA
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The Bug Nebula, shown in this image released Thursday May 6, 2004 by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. At its center lies a superhot, dying star smothered in a blanket of hailstones. The new H Associated Press, NASA HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
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In this image provided by NASA this craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" or a Dr. Seuss book, depending on your imagination. The NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, whic Associated Press, NASA
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This photo, released by NASA and the European Space Agency to commemorate the Hubble Space Telescope completing its 100,000th orbit around the Earth in its 18th year of exploration and discovery, scientists have aimed Hubble to take a snapshot of a dazzl Associated Press, NASA-ESA
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This image provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009 shows hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighbo Anonymous, NASA Hubble Space Telescope
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This stunning false-color picture shows off the many sides of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. It is made up of images taken by three of NASA's Great Observatories, using three different wavebands of light. Infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescop Associated Press, NASA
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This image is a snapshot from a movie that shows dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula as observed in X-ray light by Chandra in 2001. By combining a series of still images taken by the Hubble Space Te Associated Press, NASA
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The Hubble Space Telescope on November 9th, 1990, transmitted to earth this view of the planet Saturn showing a white spot discovered in late September by amateur astronomers, a storm that has grown from an Earth-sized white dot to a girdle around the p Associated Press, NASA
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A photo provided by NASA shows an image made February 24, 2009, by the Hubble Space Telescope of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. In this view, the giant orange moon Titan casts a large shadow onto Saturn's north polar hood. Associated Press, NASA
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These are composite images of the galaxy 0313-192, the first spiral galaxy known to be producing a giant radio-emitting jet. The image at left represents two views of the galaxy that astronomers have combined into one photograph. The view of the galaxy an Associated Press, NASA/HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
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This image of Saturn is a view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on Monday, March 22, 2004. Camera exposures in four filters were combined to form the Hubble image and render colors similar to what the eye would see through a telescope focused on Saturn. Erich Karkoschka, NASA ESA UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
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Nearly 10,000 galaxies are seen in this composite image made with the Hubble Space Telescope and released by NASA on Tuesday, March 9, 2004. This is the deepest look, named the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, into the visible universe ever; revealing a wide ran Associated Press, NASA/ESA
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Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this monstrous object is actually an innocuous pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) because in ground-based images it has a conical shape, this giant pillar resides i Associated Press, NASA
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This July 2004 Hubble Space Telescope view supplied Thursday Nov.10, 2005 by NASA and the European Space Agency shows one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Associated Press, NASA/ESA
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This image provided by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows ring system around the distant planet Uranus a more oblique (shallower) tilt as viewed from Earth in this image taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on August 14, 2007. The edge-on ri Associated Press, NASA HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
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Hubble Space Telescope image Associated Press
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This image provided by NASA July 1, 2008 shows a delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. This image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,0 Associated Press, NASA
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In this image provided by NASA shows the very deep image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and released Thursday Feb. 5, 2009 shows the spiral galaxy NGC-4921 along with a spectacular backdrop of more distant galaxies. It was created from a t Associated Press, nasa/JPL
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This image provided by NASA Tuesday Nov. 11, 2009 shows observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory in a collaboration to produce an unprecedented image of the central region of our Milky Wa Associated Press, NASA
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This false-color composite image provided by NASA Thursday April 2, 2009 shows the Cartwheel galaxy as seen by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's Far Ultraviolet detector (blue); the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera-2 in B-band visibl Anonymous, NASA JPL
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This image provided by NASA Monday Nov. 23, 2009 shows the Crab Nebula that is one of the most studied objects in the sky, making it a cosmic icon. X-ray data from Chandra provide significant clues to the workings of this mighty cosmic "generator," which Anonymous, NASA
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This photo released by NASA, Wednesday, April 19, 1995, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, from left, October 10, 1994, October 18, 1994, and November 2, 1994, shows changing weather conditions on the planet Neptune. NASA
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This undated image released by NASA shows young star HD 61005, dubbed "The Moth." Its shape is produced by starlight scattering off dust and is giving astronomers new insight into the formation and evolution of planetary systems. This is not your typical Associated Press, NASA
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This photo supplied by NASA-ESA on Tuesday, May 15,2007, shows a ring of what NASA says is dark matter, which measures 2.6 million light-years across, which was found in the cluster ZwCl0024+1652, located 5 billion light-years from Earth. An international Associated Press, NASA-ESA
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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 reco Associated Press
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This undated photo supplied by NASA and the European Space Agency shows the Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis, located about 20,000 light-years away on the outer edge of the Milky Way, which reveals dramatic changes in th Associated Press, NASA ESA HUBBLE TEAM
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This image released by NASA Thursday May 5, 2005 shows the Sombrero galaxy. The galaxy, called Messier 104, is commonly known as the Sombrero galaxy because in visible light it resembles a broad-brimmed Mexican hat called a sombrero. The new Sombrero pict Associated Press, NASA
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In this file image provided by NASA Feb. 22, 2006 from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows Pluto and three of it's moons. A team of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope said Wednesday, July 11, 2012, they have discovered the tiniest moon yet aro Associated Press
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During the 15 years that the NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope has orbited the Earth, it has taken three-quarters of a million photos of the cosmos - images that have awed, astounded and even confounded astronomers and the public ali Associated Press, NASA/ESA
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In this image provided by NASA Tuesday Sept. 13, 2005 the Hubble Space Telescope "caught" the Boomerang Nebula in these new images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys. This reflecting cloud of dust and gas has two nearly symmetric lobes (or cones) Associated Press, NASA
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In this image released by NASA, a dust ring, seen in red, surround the star Fomalhaut, that resides at the center of the image, and not visible to the human eye in this image. The Hubble Telescope discovered the fuzzy image of the planet, known as Fomalha Associated Press, NASA
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This composite image provided by NASA Wednesday Aug. 20, 2008 shows the active galaxy NGC 1275 (Perseus A). X-ray data from the Chandra's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer and radio data from NRAO's Very Large Array were combined with optical wavelengths Associated Press, NASA
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A violent and chaotic-looking mass of gas and dust is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a relatively nearby supernova remnant released Tuesday, June 7, 2005, NASA and the European Space Agency. Denoted N 63A, the object is the remains of a mass Associated Press, NASA ESA
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This photo supplied by NASA and the European Space Agency on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006, offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. The image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, represents the sharpest v Associated Press, NASA-ESA
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This photo, taken with NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's cameras, shows a portion of the Carina Nebula released Tuesday, April 24, 2007, to celebrate the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of the Hubble. The image shows a towering "mountain" o Associated Press, NASA-ESA
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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 remai Associated Press, NASA
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This image provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Thursday May 4, 2006 shows a second red spot, smaller, emerging on Jupiter. For the first time in history, astronomers have witnessed the birth of a new red spot on the giant planet, which is located h Associated Press, NASA
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This undated photo supplied by NASA and the European Space Agency shows the Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis, located about 20,000 light-years away on the outer edge of the Milky Way, which reveals dramatic changes in th Associated Press, NASA ESA HUBBLE TEAM
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To celebrate the NASA-ESA Hubble Space Telescopes 16 years of success, NASA and the European Space Agency are releasing this mosaic image of the starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82), made in March 2006. It is the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of M Associated Press, NASA-ESA
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope trained its eye on one of the universe's most stately and photogenic galaxies, the Sombrero galaxy with the space telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys , in May-June 2003 . The image of the galaxy's hallmark brilliant w Associated Press, NASA, HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM
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This image provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Thursday May 4, 2006 shows a second red spot, lower left, emerging on Jupiter. For the first time in history, astronomers have witnessed the birth of a new red spot on the giant planet, which is locate Associated Press
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This image taken by NASA's Hubble Space telescope, and released Thursday Aug. 12, 2004, shows nebula N44F, which, at left, is being inflated by a stellar wind, creating an interstellar bubble. The bubble forms when an extremely hot star is surrounded by Associated Press, NASA/ESA
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These photos released by NASA Monday, Nov. 25, 1996, taken Oct. 16-17, 1994, by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, show a galaxy, left, that looks like a wagon wheel, and a close-up image, right, of the galaxy's comet-like kno Associated Press, NASA
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The delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in a neighboring galaxy resemble the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope released Friday July 4, 2003. Hub Associated Press, NASA/HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM
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In this image released by NASA Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2005 astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered for the first time a population of embryonic stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a companion galaxy of our Milky Way. Hubble's exquisit Associated Press, NASA
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Remnants from a star that exploded thousands of years ago created a celestial abstract portrait, as captured in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Pencil Nebula released Friday June 6, 2003. Officially known as NGC 2736, the Pencil Nebula is pa Associated Press, NASA HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
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This photograph of the coil-shaped Helix Nebula, released Friday May 9, 2003, is one of the largest and most detailed celestial images ever made. The composite picture is a seamless blend of ultra-sharp images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope combined w Associated Press, NASA HUBBLE HELIX NEBULA TEAM
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In this image released Thursday July 1, 2004, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the iridescent tapestry of star birth in a neighboring galaxy in this panoramic view of glowing gas, dark dust clouds, and young, hot stars. The star-forming region, cata Associated Press, NASA
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Resembling a diamond-encrusted bracelet, a ring of brilliant blue star clusters wraps around the yellowish nucleus of what was once a normal spiral galaxy in this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) released Saturday April 24, 2004. This im Associated Press, NASA ESA HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM
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This image provided by NASA shows Saturn's moon Titan, left, as it's shadow falls on Saturn with it's rings on edge to Earth and the Sun. These edge-on alignments of the rings occur roughly once every 15 years. Astronomers have woven NASA Hubble Space Tel Associated Press, NASA ESA
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Spiral arms and dust clouds appear in the Whirlpool glaxy as seen through the Hubble Space Telescope in this undated photo. "Origins," a four-part NOVA presentation on PBS, explores the origins of life in the universe Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 28 and 2 Associated Press, NASA VIA PBS
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Space Telescope Science Institute handout image of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released Friday, Dec. 7, 2001. Vast fields of carbon dioxide ice are eroding from the poles of Mars, suggesting that the climate of the Red Planet is warming Associated Press, SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUT
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An aging star's last hurrah is creating a flurry of glowing knots of gas that appear to be streaking through space in this close-up image of the Dumbbell Nebula, taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope which was released Tuesday Feb. 10, 2003. The Dumbbe Associated Press, NASA
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Resembling a rippling pool illuminated by underwater lights, the Egg Nebula offers astronomers a special look at the normally invisible dust shells swaddling an aging star in this image made by the Hubble Sp Associated Press, NASA/HUBBLE
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This photo, released by NASA/ESA on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007, shows Arp 87, a pair of interacting galaxies. In this view from the Hubble Telescope, stars, gas, and dust flow from the large spiral galaxy, NGC 3808, form an enveloping arm around its companio Associated Press, NASA
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This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on view of the galaxy's ring of stars, revealing more detail than any existing photo of this object. The entire galaxy is about 120,000 light-years wide, which is slightly larger than our M Associated Press, NASA HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM
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This image made available by NASA and the European Space Agency on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006, shows the merging Antennae galaxies photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Associated Press, NASA-ESA
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the oldest burned-out stars, white dwarfs, estimated to be between 12 and 13 billion years old, inside this star cluster located 7,000 light-years away, as seen in this handout photo, date not known. Harvey B. R Associated Press, NASA
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This is a NASA's Hubble Space Telescope image of the planetary nebula NGC 6369. This object is known to amateur astronomers as the "Little Ghost Nebula," because it appears as a small, ghostly cloud surrounding the faint, dying central star. NGC 6369 lies AnonymousaAssociated Press, NASA/HUBBLE
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In this recent handout picture from NASA following the successful December 1999 servicing mission, this Hubble Space Telescope picture shows a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a dying, Sun-like star. This stellar relic is nicknamed the "Eskimo" N Associated Press, NASA
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This image is a snapshot from a movie that shows dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula as observed in X-ray light by Chandra in 2001. By combining a series of still images taken by the Hubble Space Te Associated Press, NASA
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Violent gas collisions that produced supersonic shock fronts in a dying star are seen in an image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The picture, taken by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, shows a star like our Sun dying and expelling its m Associated Press, NASA
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This picture of the galaxy UGC 10214 was taken April 1 and 9, 2002, by the Advanced Camera for Surveys, which was installed aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 3B. Dubbed the "Tadpole," this spiral galaxy is unlike the textbook i Associated Press, NASA
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This image provided by NASA shows the light echo around the variable star V838 Monocerotis taken by the Hubble Space Telescope released Saturday Oct. 27, 2006. The unusual variable star V838 Monocerotis continues to puzzle astronomers. This previously in Associated Press, NASA ESA
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This 2006 composite image provided by NASA shows thousands of stars forming in the cloud of gas and dust known as the Orion nebula, as viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope. More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image assembled from 100 di Associated Press, NASA
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Comet Hyakutake is displayed in all its glory in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope taken at 8:30 p.m.. EST Monday, March 25, 1996. The Hubble photos show the comet and its surrounding debris in a false color red created by filters and processing Associated Press, NASA
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The planet Jupiter is seen in an undated handout file image provided by NASA, released Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope. Jupiter will pass 368 million miles from Earth late Monday, Sept 20 2010, its closest approac Associated Press, NASA
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This undated handout image provided by NASA, released Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope, shows a clash among members of a famous galaxy quintet reveals an assortment of stars across a wide color range, from young, b Associated Press, NASA
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This undated handout image provided by NASA, released Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope, shows stars bursting to life in the chaotic Carina Nebula. Associated Press, NASA
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Planetary nebula IC 418, known as the Spirograph Nebula, located 2,000 light years from Earth, is seen in this photo from the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. A planetary nebula is the final stage of the evolution of a Associated Press
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This 2003 image from the Hubble telescope, provided by NASA, shows a storm of turbulent gases in the Omega/Swan nebula. Associated Press, NASA
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This undated handout image provided by NASA, released Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope, shows a celestial object that looks like a delicate butterfly. Associated Press, NASA
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The NASA space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope are seen in silhouette, side by side in this solar transit image made at 12:17p.m. EDT, Wednesday, May 13, 2009, from Florida. The two spaceships were at an altitude of 600 km and they zipped Associated Press, NASA
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In this recent handout picture from NASA following the successful December 1999 servicing mission, this Hubble Space Telescope picture shows a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a dying, Sun-like star. This stellar relic is nicknamed the "Eskimo" N Associated Press, NASA
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These photos released Friday, Oct. 13, 1995, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show, Io, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede, the four largest moons of Jupiter. Located approximatley one-half billion miles away, the moons are so small that, in visible light, Associated Press, NASA
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This undated handout photo provided by NASA, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the dwarf planet Pluto.The image shows an icy, mottled, dark molasses-colored world undergoing seasonal surface color and brightness changes. Associated Press, NASA
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This image provided by NASA shows a high oblique scene looking toward the Red Sea, Sinai Peninsula and the Mediterranean Sea. Saudi Arabia is in the foreground and Egypt's Nile River and its delta can be seen (left) toward the horizon. Israel and Jordan c Associated Press, NASA
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This illustration released by NASA depicts a view of the night sky just before the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy, left, and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. About 3.75 billion years from now, Andromeda's disk fills the field of view and i Associated Press
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Photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on Aug. 1, 1998 and released by NASA Thursday May 14,1998 shows the Centaurus A, one of the most-studied nearby steller formations. It contains a massive black hole that is gobbling up a spiral galaxy containing m Associated Press, NASA
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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a spiral galaxy that may rotate in the opposite direction from what was expected. This photo was taken in May, 2001 by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The image shows NGC 4622 and it Associated Press, NASA JPL
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This undated image released Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1998, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the small spiral galaxy NGC 7742. It is known to be a Seyfert 2 active galaxy, a type of galaxy that is probably powered by a black hole residing in its core. T Associated Press
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of planetary nebula NGC 7027 shows remarkable new details of the process by which a star like the sun dies. This photo was presented to the 178th meeting of the American Astronomical Society Jan. 16 1996, in San Anto Associated Press, HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
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In this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, searchlight beams and multiple arcs can be seen around a dying star in the Egg Nebula, also known as CRL2688, located 3000 light years from earth. Associated Press, HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
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The face of a star called Betelgeuse as seen with the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Associated Press, NASA
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Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in this "deepest-ever" view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Besides the classical spiral and elliptical shaped galaxies, there is a variet Associated Press, NASA HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
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This photo released by NASA Thursday Nov. 2, 1995 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope April 1, 1995 shows what viewers of CNN say is the face of Jesus. The picture of stars being born in a six trillion-mile-long gas cloud appears to be a shadowy face that Associated Press, NASA
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NASA photo released Wednesday Dec. 17, 1997, taken by the Hubble Space telescope Aug. 2, 1997, shows the Twin Jet Nebula. If the nebula is sliced across the star, each side of it appears much like a pair of exhausts from jet engines. The nebula is 2,100 l Associated Press, NASA
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This near-infrared image released by NASA Thursday May 28, 1998, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope Aug. 4, 1997, is the first picture that appears to show direct evidence of the existence of a planet outside the solar system, according to NASA officials Associated Press, NASA
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The spiral galaxy NGC 4414 is shown in this Thursday, June 3, 1999 photo from NASA obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. Based on their discovery and brightness measurements of variable Associated Press, HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM (NASA)
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These photos released by NASA Wednesday, Nov. 29, 1995, show the faintest object ever seen around a star beyond the Sun, and the first detection of a brown dwarf. The brown dwarf orbits the red dwarf star Gliese 229, located approximately 18 light-years f Associated Press, NASA
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The Hubble Space Telescope has returned this picture of these wraithlike formations 450 light years away and is on a search for more. These gigantic, tadpole-shaped objects are probably the result of a dying star's last gasps. Dubbed ``cometary knots'' be AP Photo/NASA/Rice University, C. Robert O'Dell and Kerry P. Handron, NASA/STSCI
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A glimpse of what is believed to be the most powerful star ever detected--a dynamo that pumps out 10 million times more energy than the sun and yet can't be seen with the naked eye-- is shown in this image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. A nebula, Associated Press, DON F. FIGER, UCLA, NASA
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These photos released Friday, Oct. 13, 1995, show two images of the planet Saturn taken Oct. 9, 1995, by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Top view, bright aurorae at Saturn's northern and southern poles, as seen Associated Press, NASA
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This color composite Image of Mars is the result of observation made on December 13, 1990, with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The images were taken with the Wide Field & Planetary Camera (WF/PC) in PC mode, when Mars was 85 million kilometers, 53 millio Associated Press, NASA
By Deseret News

Twenty-five years ago, on April 24, 1990, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope — a telescope roughly the size of a large school bus, but with the power to forever change the way humans look at the cosmos — was launched from Florida.

Since its launch, the Hubble telescope has traveled more than three billion miles around Earth's orbit and has made more than 1.2 million observations. Although the telescope doesn't travel to stars and planets, its cameras have reached across the universe to send stunning images back to Earth.

Here's a photographic look back through some of the most spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope's 25 years in space.

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