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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Spots 800,000 Stars 170,000 Light Years Away From Earth

Jan 14, 2014 12:45 PM EST | By Justin Stock

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted 800,000 stars 170,000 light-years from the Earth National Geographic reported Monday.

The picture shows the internal organs of a Tarantula Nebula in an image National Geographic reported. The collection of stars categorized as a cosmic arachnoid, and named Doradus 30 spans 600 light years in out space National Geographic reported.

"Because of the mosaic's exquisite detail and sheer breadth, we can follow how episodes of star birth migrate across the region in space and time," Elena Sabbi, a principal investigator of the observing team told National Geographic and an astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, told National Geographic via NASA.

The constellation sits in a vast magellanic cloud, also known as the biggest satellite galaxy in the Milky Way National Geographic reported.

Hubble located extraterrestrial clouds on two exoplanets Jan. 4 Fox News reported. The exoplanets  are space bodies that go around a star other than the sun according to information from Observatoire de Paris.

The planets are called Super earth and Warm Neptune, and teach scientists how to group conditions similar to Earth, based on what they see Fox News reported.

Super-Earth's with double the center are known to be 10 times the mass and 10 times gallons of water as planet Earth according to information on Space.com.

A recent study also found Super-Earths could resemble planets with water climates such as planet Earth's more than originally thought Space.com reported Jan. 9.

The exo-planets usually exist in the Milky Way galaxy however scientists have thought the celestial bodies had water Space.com reported.

The super-earths keep the natural resource in their mantle or rock surface which comprises a planet's volume and mass opening up the possibility for continents and oceans to establish a livable climate like on planet Earth Space.com reported.

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