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News Release: First image and spectrum of a Dark Matter object
05-Dec-2001: Astronomers have observed a Dark Matter object directly for the first time. Images and spectra of a MACHO microlens - a nearby dwarf star that gravitationally focuses light from a star in another gala...
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News Release: Exploring the digital Universe with Europe's Astrophysical Virtual Observatory
05-Dec-2001: A new European initiative called the Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (AVO) is being launched to provide astronomers with a breathtaking potential for new discoveries. It will enable them to seamless...
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Photo Release: Painting with oxygen and hydrogen
18-Oct-2001: A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope is an example of 'painting with light'. Astronomers use the separated colours produced by oxygen and hydrogen to investigate star-forming processes in the n...
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News Release: Gravitational lens helps Hubble and Keck discover galaxy building block
05-Oct-2001: A very small, faint galaxy - possibly one of the long sought `building blocks' of present-day galaxies - has been discovered by a collaboration between the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Telescop...
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News Release: Greater accuracy deepens understanding - Hubble's Faint Object Spectrograph re-calibrated
11-Sep-2001: The dedicated team effort to understand and correct systematic effects in observations from Hubble's Faint Object Spectrograph has now been concluded. In future astronomers who use the observations fr...
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