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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth on September 19, 2026, a milestone in its 36-year mission during which it has traveled more than 5 billion miles and made over 1.7 million observations. Around the same time, Hubble captured images of galaxy cluster MACS J0417, whose gravitational lensing effect is being used to search for the reappearance of Supernova Athena, first discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2025.