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#01. On March 15 in 1999

Interacting Galaxies Arp 81

Arp 81 is a pair of interacting galaxies consisting of NGC 6621 (center) and NGC 6622 (left). The encounter has pulled a long tail out of NGC 6621 that has now wrapped behind the pair.

#02. On July 29 in 2006

Star Cluster Trumpler 14

Called Trumpler 14, this cluster of stars is located 8,000 light-years away in a huge star-forming region known as the Carina Nebula. The cluster is only 500,000 years old and has one of the highest concentrations of bright, massive stars in the entire Milky Way.

#03. On November 2 in 2009

Hubble Ultra Deep Field

This image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field includes infrared observations that allowed Hubble to peer deeper into the universe than it ever had before. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the big bang.