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See major lasers, distant stars, orbiting astronauts and other out-of-this-world photos from 2016.

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The distinctive blue bubble appearing to encircle WR 31a in this Hubble Space Telescope image released on Feb. 26 is a Wolf-Rayet nebula — an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other gases.

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