Gallery: Space Photos of the Week

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    <a href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/sgr1745/">NASA/CXC/INAF/F.Coti Zelati et al</a>
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    SGR 1745-2900: Magnetar Near Supermassive Black Hole.
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    <a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/16/image/g/">NASA, ESA, and H. Richer and J. Heyl (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) </a>
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    Hubble 47 Tucanae - UV.
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    <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/17681252595/in/dateposted/">NASA</a>
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    SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule docking to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module.
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    <a href="http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1519a/">ESO,ESA/Hubble, NASA. Digitized Sky Survey. Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin</a>
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    The giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) and its strange globular clusters.
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    <a href="http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1519a/">ESO</a>/<a href="https://www.facebook.com/yuribeletskyphoto">Y. Beletsky</a>
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    Iridescent Nightscape over La Silla.
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    <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/hubble-spots-the-layers-of-ngc-3923">ESA/Hubble & NASA</a>
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    Hubble Spots the Layers of NGC 3923.
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    <a href="http://www.keckobservatory.org/recent/entry/astronomers_baffled_by_discovery_of_rare_quasar_quartet">HENNAWI & ARRIGONI-BATTAIA, MPIA</a>
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    Discovery of Rare Quasar Quartet.
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