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Space Photos of the Week: Hubble Spots a Big Blue Bubble
Space photos of the week, April 17–23, 2016.
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<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-sees-a-star-inflating-a-giant-bubble"> NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team</a>
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Just in time for the 26th anniversary of Hubble's launch on April 24, 1990, the telescope has photographed an enormous, balloon-like bubble being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star. Astronomers trained the iconic telescope on this colorful feature, called the Bubble Nebula, or NGC 7635. The bubble is 7 light-years across — about one-and-a-half times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri.
