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One of humanity's best telescopes snapped a stunning image of deep space | Mashable


"Cosmic masterpiece."

A powerful telescope, perched above the clouds at some 13,800 feet, has snapped a brilliant view of distant galaxies. At center is NGC 1270, a giant elliptical galaxy some 240 million light years beyond Earth. The Gemini Planet Imager, an optical instrument for the telescopes, is designed to detect the extremely faint light from "exoplanets that are a millionth as bright as their host star," the observatory says.

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