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Mysterious Blob Galaxies Rev
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Mysterious Blob Galaxies Revealed |
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This image composite shows a giant galactic blob (red, left) and the three merging galaxies NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope discovered within it (yellow, right). Blobs are intensely glowing clouds of hot hydrogen gas that envelop faraway galaxies. They are about 10 times as large as the galaxies they surround. Visible-light images like the one shown here (left), reveal the vast extent of blobs, but don't provide much information about their host galaxies. Using its heat-seeking infrared eyes, Spitzer was able to see the dusty galaxies tucked inside one well-known blob located 11 billion light-years away. The findings reveal three monstrously bright galaxies, trillions of times brighter than the Sun, in the process of merging together (right). Spitzer also observed three other blobs located in the same cosmic neighborhood, all of which were found to be glaringly bright. One of these blobs is also known to be a galactic merger, only between two galaxies instead of three. It remains to be seen whether the final two blobs studied also contain mergers. The Spitzer data were acquired by its multiband imaging photometer. The visible-light image was taken by the Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile. |
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Mysterious Blob Galaxies Rev
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| Title |
Mysterious Blob Galaxies Revealed |
| Description |
This image composite shows a giant galactic blob (red, left) and the three merging galaxies NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope discovered within it (yellow, right). Blobs are intensely glowing clouds of hot hydrogen gas that envelop faraway galaxies. They are about 10 times as large as the galaxies they surround. Visible-light images like the one shown here (left), reveal the vast extent of blobs, but don't provide much information about their host galaxies. Using its heat-seeking infrared eyes, Spitzer was able to see the dusty galaxies tucked inside one well-known blob located 11 billion light-years away. The findings reveal three monstrously bright galaxies, trillions of times brighter than the Sun, in the process of merging together (right). Spitzer also observed three other blobs located in the same cosmic neighborhood, all of which were found to be glaringly bright. One of these blobs is also known to be a galactic merger, only between two galaxies instead of three. It remains to be seen whether the final two blobs studied also contain mergers. The Spitzer data were acquired by its multiband imaging photometer. The visible-light image was taken by the Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile. |
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Mysterious Blob Galaxies Rev
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| Title |
Mysterious Blob Galaxies Revealed |
| Description |
This image composite shows a giant galactic blob (red, left) and the three merging galaxies NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope discovered within it (yellow, right). Blobs are intensely glowing clouds of hot hydrogen gas that envelop faraway galaxies. They are about 10 times as large as the galaxies they surround. Visible-light images like the one shown here (left), reveal the vast extent of blobs, but don't provide much information about their host galaxies. Using its heat-seeking infrared eyes, Spitzer was able to see the dusty galaxies tucked inside one well-known blob located 11 billion light-years away. The findings reveal three monstrously bright galaxies, trillions of times brighter than the Sun, in the process of merging together (right). Spitzer also observed three other blobs located in the same cosmic neighborhood, all of which were found to be glaringly bright. One of these blobs is also known to be a galactic merger, only between two galaxies instead of three. It remains to be seen whether the final two blobs studied also contain mergers. The Spitzer data were acquired by its multiband imaging photometer. The visible-light image was taken by the Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile. |
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Hubble's Panoramic Portrait
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Hubble's Panoramic Portrait of a Vast Star-Forming Region |
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Hubble's Panoramic Portrait
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Hubble's Panoramic Portrait of a Vast Star-Forming Region |
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Hubble's Panoramic Portrait
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Hubble's Panoramic Portrait of a Vast Star-Forming Region |
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Thackeray's Globules in IC 2
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Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944 |
| General Information |
What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Thackeray's Globules in IC 2
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| Title |
Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944 |
| General Information |
What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Thackeray's Globules in IC 2
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| Title |
Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944 |
| General Information |
What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Thackeray's Globules in IC 2
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| Title |
Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944 |
| General Information |
What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Astronomers Feast on
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| Title |
Hubble Astronomers Feast on an Interstellar Hamburger |
| General Information |
What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Gaseous Streamers Flutter in
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| Title |
Gaseous Streamers Flutter in Stellar Breeze |
| General Information |
What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Gaseous Streamers Flutter in
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| Title |
Gaseous Streamers Flutter in Stellar Breeze |
| General Information |
What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space
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| Title |
Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space
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| Title |
Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space
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| Title |
Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space
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| Title |
Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space
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| Title |
Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space
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| Title |
Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space
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| Title |
Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space
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| Title |
Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space
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| Title |
Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space
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| Title |
Biggest 'Zoom Lens' in Space Takes Hubble Deeper into the Universe |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Reveals Complex Circu
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| Title |
Hubble Reveals Complex Circumstellar Disk |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Reveals Complex Circu
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| Title |
Hubble Reveals Complex Circumstellar Disk |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Probes the Heart of a
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| Title |
Hubble Probes the Heart of a Nearby Quasar |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Reveals Complex Circu
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| Title |
Hubble Reveals Complex Circumstellar Disk |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Probes the Heart of a
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| Title |
Hubble Probes the Heart of a Nearby Quasar |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Probes the Heart of a
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| Title |
Hubble Probes the Heart of a Nearby Quasar |
| General Information |
What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Images from Hubble's ACS Tel
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Images from Hubble's ACS Tell a Tale of Two Record-Breaking Galaxy Clusters |
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Images from Hubble's ACS Tel
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Images from Hubble's ACS Tell a Tale of Two Record-Breaking Galaxy Clusters |
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Images from Hubble's ACS Tel
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Images from Hubble's ACS Tell a Tale of Two Record-Breaking Galaxy Clusters |
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Images from Hubble's ACS Tel
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Images from Hubble's ACS Tell a Tale of Two Record-Breaking Galaxy Clusters |
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Images from Hubble's ACS Tel
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Images from Hubble's ACS Tell a Tale of Two Record-Breaking Galaxy Clusters |
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Astronomers Find Smallest Ex
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Astronomers Find Smallest Extrasolar Planet Yet Around Normal Star |
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Hubble Sees Stars as Numerou
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Hubble Sees Stars as Numerous as Grains of Sand in Nearby Galaxy |
| General Information |
What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Finds that Earth is S
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Hubble Finds that Earth is Safe from One Class of Gamma-ray Burst |
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Hubble Finds that Earth is S
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Hubble Finds that Earth is Safe from One Class of Gamma-ray Burst |
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Hubble Finds that Earth is S
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Hubble Finds that Earth is Safe from One Class of Gamma-ray Burst |
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Hubble Sees Stars as Numerou
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| Title |
Hubble Sees Stars as Numerous as Grains of Sand in Nearby Galaxy |
| General Information |
What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Finds that Earth is S
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| Title |
Hubble Finds that Earth is Safe from One Class of Gamma-ray Burst |
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Hubble Finds that Earth is S
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| Title |
Hubble Finds that Earth is Safe from One Class of Gamma-ray Burst |
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Hubble Sees Stars as Numerou
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| Title |
Hubble Sees Stars as Numerous as Grains of Sand in Nearby Galaxy |
| General Information |
What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Finds that Earth is S
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| Title |
Hubble Finds that Earth is Safe from One Class of Gamma-ray Burst |
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Hubble Sees Stars as Numerou
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| Title |
Hubble Sees Stars as Numerous as Grains of Sand in Nearby Galaxy |
| General Information |
What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Sees Stars as Numerou
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| Title |
Hubble Sees Stars as Numerous as Grains of Sand in Nearby Galaxy |
| General Information |
What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Finds that Earth is S
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| Title |
Hubble Finds that Earth is Safe from One Class of Gamma-ray Burst |
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Hubble Finds that Earth is S
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Hubble Finds that Earth is Safe from One Class of Gamma-ray Burst |
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Hubble Finds Extrasolar Plan
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| Title |
Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy |
| General Information |
What is a NASA Science Update? Major Hubble discoveries on NASA television ... Astronomers explain their Hubble discoveries at a press conference, called a NASA Science Update (NSU), broadcast on NASA television. The NSU includes a question and answer session with members of the media. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during a Hubble survey, called the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS). Hubble looked farther than has ever successfully been searched for extrasolar planets. Hubble peered at 180,000 stars in the crowded central bulge of our galaxy 26,000 light-years away or one-quarter the diameter of the Milky Way's spiral disk. The results will appear in the Oct. 5 issue of the journal Nature. Read more: * NASA Press Release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/34/text/ ] |
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Hubble Finds Extrasolar Plan
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Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy |
| General Information |
What is a NASA Science Update? Major Hubble discoveries on NASA television ... Astronomers explain their Hubble discoveries at a press conference, called a NASA Science Update (NSU), broadcast on NASA television. The NSU includes a question and answer session with members of the media. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during a Hubble survey, called the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS). Hubble looked farther than has ever successfully been searched for extrasolar planets. Hubble peered at 180,000 stars in the crowded central bulge of our galaxy 26,000 light-years away or one-quarter the diameter of the Milky Way's spiral disk. The results will appear in the Oct. 5 issue of the journal Nature. Read more: * NASA Press Release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/34/text/ ] |
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