The image shows a celestial field littered with stars, and two galaxies from the Milky Ways local group.
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In space, you’re able to see stars!
Astronaut Don Pettit captured this image from the ISS, revealing two dwarf satellite galaxies above the horizon.Don Pettit/NASA
Its smaller counterpart, the Small Magellanic Cloud, is a dwarf galaxy with about 3 billion stars.
Its slight further away, located about 210,000 light years away from Earth.
Pettits image of the two galaxies side-by-side puts the universe in perspective.
This isnt the astronauts first attempt at beaming down views from the ISS.
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