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This image is the cluster Westerlund 2 from Hubble. The image’s central region, containing the star cluster, blends visible-light data taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys and near-infrared exposures. Image provided by NASA 2015
The giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020) are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located 163,000 light-years away. The image is nicknamed the “Cosmic Reef,” because the nebulas resemble an undersea world.
Kepler-1649c is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star Kepler-1649. It is located 300 light-years from Earth. The most “similar planet to Earth” found so far by the Kepler Space Telescope. Image provided by JPL 2020.
This Hubble Space Telescope image of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) was taken on April 20, 2020.
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