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Hubble Telescope

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.(AURA), for NASA, under contract with the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MS. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA)

Publication Size	Hold the pickles; hold the lettuce. Space is serving up giant hamburgers. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a photograph of a strange object that bears an uncanny resemblance to a hamburger. The object, nicknamed Gomez's Hamburger, is a sun-like star nearing the end of its life. It already has expelled large amounts of gas and dust and is on its way to becoming a colorful, glowing planetary nebula.
Publication Size	Resembling the hair in Botticelli's famous portrait of the birth of Venus, softly glowing filaments stream from a complex of hot young stars. This image of a nebula, known as N44C, comes from the archives of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). It was taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in 1996 and is being presented by Hubble Heritage Project.
Publication Size	A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's Object. This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on view of the galaxy's ring of stars, revealing more detail than any existing photo of this object.

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