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    Amy Tyndall

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    9 of the Hubble Space Telescope’s greatest discoveries © NASA
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    Hubble at 30 10 of the Hubble Space Telescope’s greatest discoveries

    Hubble's greatest discoveries: the cause of gamma-ray bursts © NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)
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    The cause of gamma-ray bursts

    Hubble allowed scientists to create this 3D map of dark matter – the distance from Earth increases from left to right © NASA, ESA and R. Massey (California Institute of Technology)
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    Dark matter

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    Hubble's greatest discoveries: how galaxies evolve © R. Williams (STScI), the Hubble Deep Field Team and NASA
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    How galaxies evolve

    15 distant supernovae © NASA, ESA, and A. Riess (STScI)
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    Accelerating expansion of the Universe

    Hubble's greatest discoveries: how planetary collisions work © Getty Images
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    How planetary collisions work

    Close-up of proplyds in Orion © C.R. O'Dell/Rice University; NASA
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    Protoplanetary discs

    The blue stream of material is being ejected from a black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy © NASA
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    Supermassive black holes

    Hubble reveals individual stars in the galaxy M81, including Cepheid variables that were used to determine that the Universe is 13.8 billion years old © NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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    The age of the Universe

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    Artist’s impression of the planet Osiris, which lies 150 light-years from Earth © NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
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    Exoplanet atmospheres

    The NGC 2808 globular cluster contains over one million stars of three different generations © NASA, ESA, A. Sarajedini (University of Florida) and G. Piotto (University of Padua [Padova]);
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    Generations of stars

    Meet Tilda: the orangutan that's learnt to mimic human speech © Getty Images
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    Meet Tilda: the orangutan that’s learnt to mimic human speech

    Lost without your smartphone? © iStock
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    Lost without your smartphone? Here’s why…

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