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The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

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Hodge 301 is estimated to be 20–25 million years old, which is about 10 times older than the nearby R136 cluster. It is located in the Tarantula Nebula that contains multiple generations of stars.

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

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That's the same as traveling from the East Coast of the U.S. to the West Coast in 10 minutes. The telescope is the length of a large school bus and weighs as much as two adult elephants.