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Slideshow: Hubble Telescope Celebrates 18th Birthday
April 25th, 2008 at 10:39 am

On the 18th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch, NASA released breathtaking new telescope images of galaxies colliding. NewsHour has an online slideshow of the images.

You can learn more about galaxies, clusters, and superclusters at Nova online. Plus, view more Hubble photos of deep space with Nova’s slideshow, “The Pillars of Creation.”

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