• Comparing images from the Hubble Telescope and the Swope Telescope.
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    Left: a Hubble Space Telescope image of the area near the galaxy NGC 4993 in April 2017.  Right: an image of the same area from the Swope Telescope in Chile, in August 2017.  The new dot is light from the colliding neutron stars. 

  • Comparing images from the Hubble Telescope and the Swope Telescope.

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2017

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<p>Hubble/STScI (left) and 1M2H Team / UC Santa Cruz &amp; Carnegie Observatories / Ryan Foley (right)</p>

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