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This image by the Hubble Space Telescope displays an asymmetrical shape of the red giant star Mira. This may be due to expansion-contraction cycles, or else unresolved surface features. |
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HubbleSite STScI-1997-26 |
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August 6, 1997 |
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Margarita Karovska (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics) and NASA |
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This file is in the public domain because it was created by the European Space Agency and NASA. Hubble material is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that ESA and NASA is credited as the source of the material. The material was created for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre and for NASA by STScI under Contract NAS5-26555. or . |
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19:57, 25 August 2006 |
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