heic0409
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News Release: Discovering missing black holes: First Science from a Virtual Observatory
28-May-2004: A European team has used the Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (AVO) to find 30 supermassive black holes that had previously escaped detection behind masking dust clouds. The identification of this la...
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heic0408
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Photo Release: The remarkable Red Rectangle: A stairway to heaven?
11-May-2004: Astronomers may not have observed the fabled "Stairway to Heaven", but they have photographed something almost as intriguing: ladder-like structures surrounding a dying star.
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heic0407
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Photo Release: Demise in ice and fire
29-Apr-2004: The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. At its centre lies a superhot, dying star smothered in a blanket of hailstones. A new Hubble image reveals f...
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heic0406
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News Release: Hubble's deepest view ever of the Universe unveils earliest galaxies
09-Mar-2004: Astronomers today unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible Universe ever achieved by humankind. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), the million-second-long exposure reveals the first galaxi...
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heic0405
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Photo Release: V838 Monocerotis revisited: Space phenomenon imitates art
04-Mar-2004: Starry Night", Vincent van Gogh's famous painting, is renowned for its bold whorls of light sweeping across a raging night sky. Although this image of the heavens came only from the artist's restless ...
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