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PHOTOS: Incredible images from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula.
This undated image provided by the University of Utah shows the Andromeda galaxy, made by the Hubble Space Telescope.
This image provided by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the striking details of the famed planetary nebula designated NGC 2818.
Hubble peered into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074, top, on Sunday,Aug.10, 2008.
This image made by the Hubble Space Telescope and released by NASA Thursday, April 24, 2008, shows AM 0500-620.
A Hubble Space Telescope view of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672.
This image made available by NASA and the European Space Agency on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006, shows the merging Antennae galaxies photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Crab Nebula is one of the most intricately structured and dynamic objects ever observed.
Star V838 Monocerotis is located about 20,000 light-years away on the outer edge of the Milky Way.
In this image released Thursday July 1, 2004, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the iridescent tapestry of star birth in a neighboring galaxy.
This image of Saturn, released Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2003, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope between March and April 2003.
M17, also known as the Omega or Swan Nebula, is located about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius.
This is a NASA's Hubble Space Telescope image of the planetary nebula NGC 6369, known to amateur astronomers as the "Little Ghost Nebula."
The spiral galaxy NGC 4414 is shown in this Thursday, June 3, 1999 photo from NASA obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope.
A nebula, produced by violent eruption on the pistol star, appears as a pinkish cloud surrounding the star.
In this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, searchlight beams and multiple arcs can be seen around a dying star in the Egg Nebula.
These photos released by NASA, taken Oct. 16-17, 1994, show a galaxy, left, that looks like a wagon wheel, and a close-up image, right, of the galaxy's comet-like knots of gas.
The Hubble Space Telescope on November 9th, 1990, transmitted to earth this view of the planet Saturn.
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This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula.
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