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Welcome to the official account for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope! The observatory and account are operated by @nasagoddard.

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A cosmic treasure trove! ✨ This week’s #HubbleFriday image shows the sparkling globular cluster NGC 6569. Globular clusters are roughly spherical groups of stars bound together by gravity, and they can contain tens of thousands to millions of stars. Discover more at the link in our bio! Image credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen #NASA #Hubble #Friday #stars #space #science #astronomy #cosmos #universe
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Photo Hubble Space Telescope - It’s #HubbleFriday time! ⏰ This week, take in the view of CGCG 396-2, an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger that’s about 520 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion. Discover more…
Photo Hubble Space Telescope - About 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Vela, the spectacular Southern Ring Nebula resides. In this #HubbleClassic image, a dying star ejects a cloud of gas expanding outwards at nine…
Photo Hubble Space Telescope - Happy #FourthOfJuly! 🇺🇸 Here’s a red, white, and blue Hubble view of DEM L249, showing stars and the aftermath of a supernova. Image credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Y. Chu #NASA #Hubble…
Video Hubble Space Telescope - Hundreds of thousands of stars call this cluster home! 🏠 Known as M15, this is a globular cluster – a roughly spherical grouping of stars bound together by gravity, with most of the stars…
Photo Hubble Space Telescope - We’re ONE WEEK away from @NASAWebb’s first images! 🥳 Another thing to get excited about: Within Webb’s first year of operations, it will provide infrared-light images of galaxies to help us better…
Photo Hubble Space Telescope - This Hubble image contains thousands of galaxies. But it also contains some cosmic photobombers! The streaks you see here are actually the trails of asteroids. They appear curved due to something…

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