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the Hubble Space Telescope Image of a Frontier Fields galaxy cluster, Abell 2744 (one of the deepest images taken of any cluster in the universe).   Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, HST Frontier Fields and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team (ST

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