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"textContent": "A tiny blue galaxy packed with doomed giant stars hints at a recent, mysterious cosmic collision. The sparkling blue object featured as this ESA Hubble Picture of the Week is a compact dwarf galaxy known as Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). Much smaller than the Milky Way, this galaxy sits about 13 million light-years from Earth [...]",
"title": "This Tiny Blue Galaxy Is Glowing With Rare and Violent Stars"
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