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Hubble at 25: anniversary of space telescope

celebrated with stellar new images

The European Space Agency says that the reworks depicted in the picture
celebrate the telescope's silver anniversary
ANDREW GRIFFIN

Thursday 23 April 2015

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Spectacular new pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope have

been released, marking 25 years since it was launched into orbit
by the Space Shuttle.
On April 24, 1990, the shuttle carried Hubble up into space,
making it the first telescope of its kind. And today the European
Space Agency released a new image marking 25 years since it
was launched.
The picture shows what the agency refers to as "silver
anniversary fireworks", which are spewing out of a star cluster
known as Westerlund 2 and made up of about 3,000 stars.
Astronomers took the picture by combining Hubble's Advanced
Camera for Surveys, which looks at visible light, and the Wide
Field Camera 3 which can see near-infrared. The image would
not normally have been able to see because it is surrounded by
dust, but the technology on the telescope allows astronomers to
look through it.

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