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Samantha Mathewson

Hubble telescope captures a brave star trying to outshine a huge galaxy (photo)

an oval-ish galaxy with numerous clusters of stars seen in a telescope image. at bottom is a very bright star with spikes going in all directions

A bright star photobombed a new image of a galaxy bursting with new stars. 

The Hubble Space Telescope, which is a joint mission of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), photographed an irregular galaxy known as Arp 263, or NGC 3239. The galaxy lies approximately 25 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo. 

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