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Photo of the day: Hubble marks 22 years in orbit with stellar imageIn celebration of the 22nd anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1990, NASA has released this stunning new image of the Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus. Located about 160,000 light-years from Earth, 30 Doradus is one of the largest, brightest and most prolific star nurseries in the Milky Way. It’s so bright that if it were as close to the Earth as the Orion Nebula — located 1,500 light-years away — it would fill up a space equivalent to 60 moons in our night sky and would also cast shadows on the surface of the planet.

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