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Photo Release: Eye-catching celestial helix
09-May-2003: In one of the largest and most detailed celestial images ever, astronomers today unveil the coil-shaped Helix Nebula to celebrate Astronomy Day.
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News Release: Finding the ashes of the first stars
30-Apr-2003: Recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the first stars formed as little as 200 million years after the Big Bang. This is much earlier than previously thought. Astronomers hav...
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Photo Release: A perfect storm of turbulent gases
24-Apr-2003: Like the fury of a raging sea, this anniversary image from the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a bubbly ocean of glowing hydrogen, oxygen, and sulphur gas in the extremely massive and luminous ...
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News Release: Hubble watches light echo from mysterious erupting star
26-Mar-2003: In January 2002, a moderately dim star in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn, suddenly became 600 000 times more luminous than our Sun. This made it temporarily the brightest star in our Milky W...
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News Release: European astronomers observe first evaporating planet
12-Mar-2003: Using the Hubble Space Telescope, for the first time, astronomers have observed the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet evaporating off into space. Much of this planet may eventually disappear, leaving...
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Photo Release: Hubble resolves a blaze of stars in galaxy's core
06-Mar-2003: The central region of the small galaxy NGC 1705 blazes with the light of thousands of young and old stars. Astronomers call NGC 1705 a dwarf irregular, that is, a small galaxy lacking regular structur...
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Photo Release: The Boomerang Nebula - the coolest place in the Universe?
20-Feb-2003: The Boomerang Nebula is a young planetary nebula and the coldest object found in the Universe so far. The NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope image illustrates how Hubble's keen vision reveals surprises ...
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News Release: First light for Europe's virtual observatory
17-Dec-2002: Imagine you are an astronomer with instant, fingertip access to all existing observations of a given object and the opportunity to sift through them at will. In just a few moments, you can have inform...
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News Release: Missing link found between supernovae and black holes
18-Nov-2002: A nearby black hole, hurtling like a cannonball through the plane of our Milky Way, has provided possibly the best evidence yet that stellar-mass black holes are made in supernova explosions. This bla...
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Photo Release: A rose blooming in space
12-Sep-2002: Resembling a delicate rose floating in space, the nebula N11A is seen in a new light in a true-colour image taken by the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Fierce radiation from massive stars embedded ...
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Photo Release: A glimpse into the heart of a dying star
18-Jul-2002: An image taken with the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows one of the most unusually long planetary nebulae found so far. Scientists think planetary nebulae hold the key to understanding how the U...
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News Release: Young stars in old galaxies - surprising discovery with the world's leading telescopes
26-Jun-2002: Combining data from the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT), a group of European and American astronomers have made a major discovery. They have identified a huge n...
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News Release: Hubble's infrared camera is back in business - new images released
05-Jun-2002: After more than three years of inactivity, today the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) is once again active. Equipped with a new cryogenic ...
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News Release: Hubble's Advanced Camera unveils a panoramic new view of the Universe
30-Apr-2002: Jubilant astronomers today unveiled humankind's most spectacular views of the Universe as captured by the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). They also reported t...
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Photo Release: Hyperactive galaxy NGC 7673
25-Mar-2002: The disturbed spiral galaxy NGC 7673 is ablaze with the light from millions of new stars. Each of its infant giant blue star clusters shines 100 times as brightly in the ultraviolet as similar immense...
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News Release: European Faint Object Camera on Hubble sets world record
- celebrating the successes of ESA's sharp-sighted camera
07-Mar-2002: When the new Advanced Camera for Surveys was installed on the ESA /NASA Hubble Space Telescope Thursday noon (European time) it replaced the European Space Agency 's Faint Object Camera (FOC). FOC has...
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News Release: Hubble's solar arrays - behind the scenes
05-Mar-2002: The power for Hubble's scientific discoveries comes from solar cells. Designing and constructing Hubble's first two sets of solar cell arrays constituted a huge technological achievement for the Europ...
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News Release: Hubble gets revitalised in new Servicing Mission for more and better science!
15-Feb-2002: After nearly 12 years of incredible scientific discoveries, the ESA /NASA Hubble Space Telescope orbiting Earth is about to have another service visit. The purpose is to upgrade Hubble's systems and t...
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News Release: First view of a newborn millisecond pulsar?
13-Feb-2002: Combining Hubble Space Telescope images with radio observations has revealed a highly unusual system consisting of a fast spinning pulsar and a bloated red companion star. The existence of the system ...
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News Release: Students follow in the footsteps of scientists - ESA/ESO astronomy exercises provide a taste of real astronomy
14-Dec-2001: The ' ESA /ESO Astronomy Exercise Series', published today, allows students to gain exciting hands-on experience in astronomy by making realistic calculations with data obtained by the world's best te...
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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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News Release: Hubble reveals previously unseen shocks
24-Aug-2001: A new, detailed Hubble image of a planetary nebula in the making shows for the first time the complex gas structures predicted by theory. Astronomers are thrilled by observations showing the violent g...
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News Release: Virtual Telescope Observes Record-Breaking Asteroid - New data show that '2001 KX76' is larger than Ceres
23-Aug-2001: Ceres, the first asteroid (minor planet) to be discovered in the Solar System, has held the record as the largest known object of its kind for two centuries. However, recent observations at the Europe...
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Photo Release: Surfing in Sagittarius - not for the faint-hearted!
24-Jul-2001: Hubble observations have revealed huge waves sculpted in the Red Spider Nebula. This warm and windy planetary nebula harbours one of the hottest stars in the Universe and its powerful stellar winds ge...
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Photo Release: Hubble images remarkable double cluster
10-Jul-2001: The Double Cluster NGC 1850 found in one of our neighbouring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud, is an eye-catching object. It is a young globular-like star cluster - a type of object unknown in our...
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News Release: Hint of planet-sized drifters bewilders Hubble scientists
27-Jun-2001: Piercing the heart of a globular star cluster with its needle-sharp vision, the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered tantalising clues to what could potentially be a strange and unexpected p...
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News Release: Hubble unveils a galaxy in living colour
31-May-2001: An extensive, multi-wavelength study with the Hubble Space Telescope has shown the many faces of the galaxy NGC 1512. Hubble's unique vantage point high above the atmosphere allows scientists to see o...
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Photo Release: Eleven years in orbit: Hubble observes the popular Horsehead nebula
24-Apr-2001: To celebrate its eleventh birthday, the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope has released an unsurpassed picture of the famous Horsehead nebula in Orion. This dark nebula is part of the large Orion Comple...
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Photo Release: Massive infant stars rock their cradle
28-Mar-2001: Extremely intense radiation from newly born, ultra-bright stars has blown a glowing spherical bubble in the nebula N83B. A new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image has helped to decipher the complex ...
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News Release: Hubble spies huge clusters of stars formed by ancient encounter
07-Mar-2001: Beautiful, detailed Hubble images of the centre of the prototypical starburst galaxy M82 point to a violent past. An ancient burst of star formation that gave birth to more than 100 super star cluster...
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News Release: Hubble Zooms In on Bar of Favourite Spring Spiral Galaxy
27-Feb-2001: Astronomers have long suspected that the bar systems that dominate the appearance of some spiral galaxies provide an efficient mechanism for fuelling star births at their centres. New results from the...
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Photo Release: Ants in space? - Tantalising detail in ant-shaped nebula illuminates last moments of Sun-like stars
01-Feb-2001: Observed from ground-based telescopes, the so-called 'ant nebula' (Menzel 3, or Mz3) resembles the head and thorax of a common garden ant. This dramatic NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, showing ...
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News Release: Uncovering the mysteries of Jupiter's aurora
14-Dec-2000: This week European and American researchers seize a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gather simultaneous observations from the NASA/ESA Cassini/Huygens space mission and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Tel...
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News Release: Three Good Reasons for Celebrating at the ESO/ST-ECF Science Archive Facility - Great Demand for Data from New 'Virtual Observatory'
13-Dec-2000: Due to a happy coincidence the ESO /ST-ECF Science Archive Facility is celebrating three different milestones at the same time: its 10th anniversary, the 10,000th request for data and the signing-up o...
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Photo Release: Stephan's Quintet - A Mammoth Cosmic Collision
25-Oct-2000: A spectacular new image from the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the group of galaxies called Stephan's Quintet provides a detailed view of one of the most exciting star forming regions in the loc...
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Photo Release: A Tantalising Veil
10-Oct-2000: This delicate Hubble Space Telescope image shows a tiny portion of the Cygnus loop, a supernova remnant in the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan. Measurements on this super-detailed image of a cosmic ...
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News Release: Unveiling the nature of a dusty galaxy
06-Sep-2000: The ESA /NASA Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detailed optical observations of an example of a remarkable class of galaxies by using the additional magnifying power of a huge galaxy cluster ...
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Photo Release: A stellar cocoon soon to hatch to a butterfly
31-Aug-2000: Observations with the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope show a previously unknown richness of detail in the intriguing proto-planetary nebula CRL 618. CRL 618 is a superb example of the transition taki...
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News Release: Hubble uncovers the first high-resolution details in a gamma-ray burst host galaxy
27-Jun-2000: A group of European astronomers have obtained the first detailed images of a galaxy in which a gamma-ray burst has occurred. The image was taken with one of the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope's high...
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News Release: Hubble, the black hole finder
05-Jun-2000: New results by a group of European and American scientists make it clear that the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope is nothing less than a true black hole finder.
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News Release: Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre Opens
27-Apr-2000: For the Hubble Space Telescopes 10th anniversary on 27 April, ESA opens a new service. The Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre offers information about Hubble from a European perspective. ...
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News Release: HST's 10th anniversary: ESA and Hubble - changing our vision
17-Apr-2000: To mark the Hubble Space Telescope's tenth anniversary, ESA is hosting a press conference at the Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) in Munich on Thursday 27 April . With the astro...
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News Release: First Light for the ASTROVIRTEL Project
12-Apr-2000: Astronomical data archives increasingly resemble virtual gold mines of information. A new project, known as ASTROVIRTEL aims to exploit these astronomical treasure troves by allowing scientists to use...
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News Release: The Heliosphere is Tilted - implications for the 'Galactic weather forecast'?
13-Mar-2000: Supersonic shock waves detected at the edge of the Solar System - a new study by European scientists clarifies conditions at our Earth's outermost shield against interstellar charged particles.
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News Release: Hubble reopens eye on the Universe
24-Jan-2000: The NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, as made dramatically evident in stunning new celestial pictures of remote galaxies and a colourful dying star released today.
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News Release: Servicing Mission 3A Summary
14-Jan-2000: After months of delays because of wiring defects, an engine swap and replacement of a crushed liquid hydrogen line, NASA launched Discovery into space on Hubble Servicing Mission 3A Monday 20 December...
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News Release: ESA's Hubble duo back on Earth after successful servicing mission
28-Dec-1999: ESA astronauts Claude Nicollier and Jean-Frangois Clervoy and their five fellow crew members on the Space Shuttle Discovery returned to Earth today (28 December at 0001 GMT) after a spectacular missio...
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News Release: Discovery finally lifts off on a Christmas mission to repair Hubble
20-Dec-1999: On the tenth scheduled attempt, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Discovery at 1:50 CET Monday morning on Hubble Servicing Mission 3A. The two previous launch attempts were called off due to poor weathe...
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News Release: European astronauts set for Hubble challenge
09-Dec-1999: Two of the European Space Agency 's most experienced astronauts are preparing to board the Space Shuttle Discovery as part of the international crew to be launched on an end-of-the-year mission to ser...
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News Release: HST - Telescope, Observations and Servicing Mission
25-Nov-1999: The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a joint ESA /NASA project launched into a low-Earth orbit 600 km above the ground in 1990 by Space Shuttle mission STS-31. During its first nine years of operations...
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News Release: Hubble Space Telescope into safe hold as gyroscope fails
16-Nov-1999: Just 24 days before its third Servicing Mission, the Hubble Space telescope has been placed into a safe mode, triggered by a failure in one of Hubble's last three working gyroscopes.
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News Release: The 'Rotten Egg' nebula - a planetary nebula in the making
19-Oct-1999: The object shown in these ESA /NASA Hubble Space Telescope images is a remarkable example of a star going through death throes just as it dramatically transforms itself from a normal red giant star in...
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News Release: Starry bulges yield secrets to galaxy growth
06-Oct-1999: The Hubble Space Telescope is uncovering important new clues to a galaxy's birth and growth by peering into its heart - a bulge of millions of stars that resemble a bulbous centre yolk in the middle o...
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News Release: Closing in on distant, infant galaxies
17-Sep-1999: Detailed proposals for the construction of the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) were presented during the yearly NGST meeting. Representatives from the three major participants in the project, N...
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