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Hubble Photo of Galaxy M100 |
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| In 1924 American astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that fuzzy patches in the sky called “spiral nebulas” were in fact galaxies like our Milky Way. The orbiting telescope named after him, the Hubble Space Telescope, took this picture of a distant galaxy called M100 in 1995. | ||||||
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| Star (astronomy); Astronomy, History of; Astronomy; Science; Galaxy; Hubble Space Telescope (HST); Cosmology; Interstellar Matter | ||||||
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