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Zoom into the Abell 2744

  • Release Date
    January 7, 2014
  • Science Release
    Hubble’s First Frontier Field Finds Thousands of Unseen, Faraway Galaxies
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  • Credit
    NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI); Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, A. Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech, and UKSTU/AAO, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team (STScI)

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