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The first batch of these -- literally historic -- images shows us a tantalizing look at the Fornax cluster of galaxies, some 60 million light years from Earth.
ENGADGET: DECam: Gazing deep into the final frontier in search of dark energy
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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a supernova in the distant galaxy NGC 5806, which is a relatively unremarkable galaxy located about 80 million light years from Earth.
FORBES: Hubble Telescope Finds A Distant Supernova
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This supermassive black hole lies at the center of galaxy NGC 1277, which is about 220 million light years away from Earth.
FORBES: Astronomers Find One Of The Biggest Supermassive Black Holes Yet
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To estimate the number of alien worlds, Dr. Cassan and his colleagues studied 100 million stars between 3, 000 and 25, 000 light-years from Earth with gravitational microlensing.
WSJ: Galaxy Hosts 100 Billion Planets, in New Estimate
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The researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany said the black hole was 27, 000 light years, or 158 thousand, million, million miles from the Earth.
BBC: Black hole confirmed in Milky Way