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The image shows a detailed portrait of the Triangulum, composed of 54 Hubble fields of view stitched together, revealing nearly 25 million individually resolved stars. Nasa said that the image was captured on July 28, 2019, that trace the jagged edge of the mosaic, which spans 19,400 light-years across with striking areas of star birth glowing bright blue throughout the galaxy.

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The Hubble spacecraft has been in space for 32 years now and has gone through several repairs and maintenance work when the Shuttle missions were ongoing. The flying observatory has completed one billion seconds of operations in Zero gravity and conducted more than 1.5 million scientific observations.

The telescope has been critical in discovering worlds hundreds of light-years away from Earth, outside of our Solar System. The telescope has been recovered from complete shutdown twice in 2021, showing the engineering and technological advancement of the system and the team behind it.

Deployed on April 25, 1990, Hubble, before the arrival of the Webb Telescope, was working in tandem with ESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which aims to find promising exoplanets. Scientists have said that the Webb Telescope and the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will build upon the legacy left behind by Hubble.

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