File:Mira 1997.jpg
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| 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. |
| Date | 6 August 1997 |
| Source | HubbleSite STScI-1997-26 |
| Author | Margarita Karovska (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics) and NASA |
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