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Summary

Description

This image by the Hubble Space Telescope displays an asymmetrical shape of the red giant star Mira. This may be due to expansion-contraction cycles, or else unresolved surface features.

Source

HubbleSite STScI-1997-26

Date

August 6, 1997

Author

Margarita Karovska (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics) and NASA

Permission

NASA image

External Links

  • Ceti images at ESA/Hubble

Licensing

Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and the European Space Agency. Hubble material is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that NASA and ESA is credited as the source of the material. The material was created for NASA by STScI under Contract NAS5-26555 and for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. or .

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