heic0404
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News Release: Hubble and Keck team up to find farthest known galaxy in the Universe
15-Feb-2004: An international team of astronomers may have set a new record in discovering what is the most distant known galaxy in the Universe. Located an estimated 13 billion light-years away, the object is bei...
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heic0403
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News Release: Oxygen and carbon discovered in exoplanet atmosphere ‘blow-off'
02-Feb-2004: The well-known extrasolar planet HD 209458b, provisionally nicknamed Osiris, has surprised astronomers again. Oxygen and carbon have been found in its atmosphere, evaporating at such an immense rate t...
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heic0402
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Photo Release: Supernova blast bonanza in nearby galaxy
03-Feb-2004: The nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 is a hotbed of vigorous star birth activity which blows huge bubbles and super-bubbles that riddle the main body of the galaxy. The galaxy's vigorous ‘star factories' ...
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heic0401
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News Release: First supernova companion star found
07-Jan-2004: A joint European/University of Hawaii team of astronomers has for the first time observed a stellar ‘survivor' to emerge from a double star system involving an exploded supernova. Supernovae are some ...
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heic0313
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News Release: Record-breaking ancient galaxy clusters
31-Dec-2003: Studies of two distant galaxy clusters using a combination of the largest radio, optical and x-ray telescopes on the ground and in space have independently found that galaxies formed relatively early ...
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