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    THE MILKY WAY

    Apr 08, 2020 4 minutes

    The Milky Way is home to some incredible sights. From the dusty beauty of stellar nurseries to the colourful detritus left after a star explodes, Hubble has helped to reveal the beauty of our Galaxy. Yet these images are not only stunning to look at. To an astronomer’s eye, these photographs tell the story of a star’s life.

    The tale begins soon after Hubble launched 30 years ago, when it first turned its eye towards some of the clouds of dust dotted throughout our Galaxy. Astronomers believed that these were stellar nurseries, the places where every star in our night sky began its life.

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