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Gas released by a
dying star races
across space at more
than 966,000 kilome-
tres an hour, forming
the delicate shape of
a celestial butterly.
This image was cap-
tured in 2009. (NASA,
ESA, and the Hubble
SM4 ERO Team)
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This image shows the
eXtreme Deep Field,
or XDF. The photo was
assembled by combin-
ing 10 years of NASA
Hubble Space Telescope
photographs taken of
a patch of sky at the
centre of the origi-
nal Hubble Ultra Deep
Field. (NASA; ESA;
G. Illingworth, D.
Magee, and P. Oesch,
University of Cali-
fornia, Santa Cruz;
R. Bouwens, Leiden
University; and the
HUDF09 Team)
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This image of Jupiter,
from 2016, is part of
Hubble’s Outer Planets
Atmosphere Legacy
program. (NASA/ESA
Hubble Space Telescope
OPAL programme, STScI,
Karol Masztalerz)
SKYNEWS • MAR/APR 2020