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Photo Release: Baffling boxy bulge
18-Nov-2009: Just as many people are surprised to find themselves packing on unexplained weight around the middle, astronomers find the evolution of bulges in the centres of spiral galaxies puzzling. A recent NASA...
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heic0913
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Photo Release: Opening up a colourful cosmic Jewel Box
29-Oct-2009: The combination of images taken by three exceptional telescopes: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the ESO Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal, the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESOs La Silla o...
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Photo Release: Sky merger yields sparkling dividends
13-Oct-2009: A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures what appears to be one very bright and bizarre galaxy, but is actually the result of a pair of spiral galaxies that resemble our own Milky Way s...
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Photo Release: Stripped down: Hubble highlights two galaxies that are losing it
30-Sep-2009: A newly released set of images, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope before the recent Servicing Mission, highlight the ongoing drama in two galaxies in the Virgo Cluster affected by a process...
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News Release: Rebirth of an icon: Hubble's first images since Servicing Mission 4
09-Sep-2009: Astronomers today declared the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory ready for a new decade of exploration, with the release of observations from four of its six operating sc...
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heic0909
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News Release: Hubble captures rare Jupiter collision
24-Jul-2009: The checkout and calibration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been interrupted to aim the recently refurbished observatory at a new expanding spot on the giant planet Jupiter. The spot, caus...
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heic0908
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News Release: Historic Hubble Servicing Mission 4 ends with successful landing
24-May-2009: The historic and successful Hubble Servicing Mission 4 concluded with a trouble-free Space Shuttle landing on Sunday. During a series of unprecedented spacewalks, astronauts replaced and repaired a to...
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News Release: Servicing Mission 4 - the fifth and final visit to Hubble
01-May-2009: On 11 May 2009 the Space Shuttle Atlantis will launch with a crew of seven to visit the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and carry out the fifth and final servicing mission. The replacement and repair ...
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Photo Release: Hubble celebrates 19th anniversary with fountain of youth
21-Apr-2009: To commemorate the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's 19 years of success, the orbiting telescope has photographed a peculiar system of galaxies known as Arp 194. This interacting group contains severa...
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Photo Release: Dramatically backlit dust in giant galaxy
07-Apr-2009: A new Hubble image highlights striking swirling dust lanes and glittering globular clusters in oddball galaxy NGC 7049.
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heic0904
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Photo Release: Four of Saturn's moons parade by their parent
17-Mar-2009: A new Hubble image shows four of Saturn's moons circling the ringed planet
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News Release: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides new evidence for dark matter around small galaxies
12-Mar-2009: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a strong new line of evidence that galaxies are embedded in halos of dark matter.
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Photo Release: Stars forced to relocate near the Southern Fish
03-Mar-2009: A new Hubble image shows three galaxies locked in a gravitational tug-of-war that may result in the eventual demise of one of them.
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heic0901
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Photo Release: Exceptionally deep view of strange galaxy
05-Feb-2009: A spectacular new image of an unusual spiral galaxy in the Coma Galaxy Cluster has been created from data taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It reveals fi...
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News Release: Hubble finds carbon dioxide on an extrasolar planet
09-Dec-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This is an important step along the trail of finding the chemical biotracers of e...
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Photo Release: Hubble captures outstanding views of mammoth stars
25-Nov-2008: Two of our Galaxy's most massive stars have been scrutinised in an impressive view by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They have, until recently, been shrouded in mystery, but the new image shows ...
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News Release: Hubble directly observes planet orbiting Fomalhaut
13-Nov-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible light snapshot of a planet circling another star.
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Photo Release: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business
30-Oct-2008: The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business with a snapshot of the fascinating galaxy pair Arp 147.
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News Release: When it comes to galaxies, diversity is everywhere
30-Sep-2008: A group of galaxies in our cosmic backyard has given astronomers clues about how stars form. A thorough survey using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed around 14 million stars in 69 gala...
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News Release: Clash of clusters provides new dark matter clue
27-Aug-2008: A powerful collision between galaxy clusters has been captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This clash of clusters provides striking evidence for dark m...
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News Release: Hubble sees magnetic monster in erupting galaxy
20-Aug-2008: The Hubble Space Telescope has found the answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most ...
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Photo Release: Hubble unveils colourful star birth region on 100 000th orbit milestone
11-Aug-2008: In commemoration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope completing its 100 000th orbit around the Earth in its 18th year of exploration and discovery, scientists have aimed Hubble to take a snapshot o...
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News Release: Globular clusters tell tale of star formation in nearby galaxy metropolis
05-Aug-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has identified thousands of more than 5 billion year-old globular clusters in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. One of the results of these discoveries led astronomers...
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News Release: Lenses galore - Hubble finds large sample of very distant galaxies
24-Jul-2008: New Hubble Space Telescope observations of six spectacular galaxy clusters acting as gravitational lenses have given significant insights into the early stages of the Universe. Scientists have found t...
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Photo Release: Hubble's sweeping view of the Coma Galaxy Cluster
10-Jun-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the Universe.
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News Release: The Antennae Galaxies move closer
09-May-2008: New research on the Antennae Galaxies using the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows that this benchmark pair of interacting galaxies is in fact much closer th...
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News Release: Compact galaxies in early Universe pack a big punch
29-Apr-2008: Using the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer onboard of the Hubble NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have made observations of young, surprisingly compact galaxies, each onl...
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Photo Release: Galaxies gone wild!
24-Apr-2008: Fifty nine new images of colliding galaxies make up the largest collection of Hubble images ever released together. As this astonishing Hubble atlas of interacting galaxies illustrates, galaxy collisi...
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News Release: Black hole found in enigmatic Omega Centauri
02-Apr-2008: Omega Centauri has been known as an unusual globular cluster for a long time. A new result obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory reveals that the explanation behin...
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Photo Release: Exploding star in NGC 2397
31-Mar-2008: The latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a sharp view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2397. This image also shows a rare Hubble view of the late stages of a supernova - SN 2006bc, di...
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News Release: Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet
19-Mar-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step in eventually i...
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News Release: Hubble discovers 67 gravitationally lensed galaxies in the distant Universe
19-Feb-2008: Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have compiled a large catalogue of gravitational lenses in the distant Universe. The catalogue contains a staggering 67 new gravitationally lensed...
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News Release: Hubble finds strong contender for galaxy distance record
12-Feb-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens", has found the strongest evidence so far for a galaxy with a redshift significantly above 7. It is likely to be one of the ...
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Photo Release: Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 - a cosmic fossil?
05-Feb-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is, most likely, a cosmic fossil -- the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of ...
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News Release: Hubble finds double Einstein ring
10-Jan-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring patter...
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News Release: The violent lives of galaxies: caught in the cosmic matter web
10-Jan-2008: Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to dissect one of the largest structures in the Universe as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies. Hubble is providing i...
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News Release: Hubble finds that "blue blobs" in space are orphaned clusters of stars
08-Jan-2008: Hubble has revealed that mysterious "blue blobs" in a structure called Arp's Loop between M81 and M82 are blue clusters of stars less than 200 million years old with many stars as young as, and even y...
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News Release: Hazy red sunset on extrasolar planet
11-Dec-2007: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a fascinating new insight into the atmosphere of a planet in orbit around another star. The observations provide evidence of the presence of h...
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Photo Release: Holiday Wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope
29-Nov-2007: Hubble has sent back an early Christmas card with this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 74. It is an enchanting reminder of the impending season. Resemblin...
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Photo Release: Hubble zooms in on heart of mystery comet
15-Nov-2007: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has probed the bright core of Comet 17P/Holmes which, to the delight of sky watchers, mysteriously brightened by nearly a million-fold in a 24-hour period beginning...
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Photo Release: Hubble sees the graceful dance of two interacting galaxies
30-Oct-2007: Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxies, containing a vast number of stars, swing past each other in a graceful performance choreographed by grav...
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News Release: Hubble shows 'baby' galaxy is not so young after all
16-Oct-2007: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found out the true nature of a dwarf galaxy that astronomers had for a long time identified as one of the youngest galaxies in the Universe. Astronomers using t...
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Photo Release: Extreme star cluster bursts into life in new Hubble image
02-Oct-2007: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular image of NGC 3603, a giant nebula hosting one of the most prominent massive young clusters in the Milky Way, thus supplying a prime templ...
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News Release: Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes find "Lego-block" galaxies in early Universe
06-Sep-2007: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the distant Universe. Bla...
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News Release: Hubble teams with Google to bring the cosmos down to Earth
22-Aug-2007: Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse click away today th...
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Photo Release: Uncovering the Veil Nebula
31-Jul-2007: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed three magnificent sections of the Veil Nebula - the shattered remains of a supernova that exploded some 5-10,000 years ago. The new Hubble images p...
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Photo Release: Stellar fireworks are ablaze in galaxy NGC 4449
03-Jul-2007: Nearly 12.5 million light-years away in the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 a veritable stellar "fireworks" is on display - here shown in exquisite detail through the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Photo Release: Hubble photographs grand spiral galaxy Messier 81
28-May-2007: The sharpest image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy Messier 81 is being released today. The image, constructed from a series of images taken with NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, i...
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News Release: Hubble finds ring of dark matter
15-May-2007: An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that was formed long ago during a titanic collision between two massive gala...
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News Release: Hubble finds multiple stellar "baby booms" in a globular cluster
02-May-2007: Analysis of Hubble observations of the massive globular cluster NGC 2808 provides evidence that it has three generations of stars that formed early in the cluster's life. This is a major upset for con...
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Photo Release: Hubble's 17th anniversary - extreme star birth in the Carina Nebula
24-Apr-2007: One of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's cameras has been released to celebrate the 17 th anniversary of the launch and deployment of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image...
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Photo Release: Hubble's view of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672
03-Apr-2007: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has delivered an unrivalled snapshot of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672. This remarkable image provides a high definition view of the galaxy's large bar, i...
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News Release: Hubble sees "Comet Galaxy" being ripped apart by galaxy cluster
02-Mar-2007: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with several other ground- and space-based telescopes, has captured a galaxy being ripped apart by a galaxy cluster's gravitational field and hars...
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News Release: The NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope Celebrates Supernova 1987A's 20th Anniversary
22-Feb-2007: Twenty years ago, astronomers witnessed one of the brightest stellar explosions in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova, called SN 1987A, blazed with the power of 100 million suns for several mo...
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Photo Release: The colourful demise of a Sun-like star
13-Feb-2007: A brand new image taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 shows the planetary nebula NGC 2440 - the chaotic structure of the demise of a star.
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Photo Release: New stars shed light on the past
08-Jan-2007: A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows N90, one of the star-forming regions in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The rich populations of infant stars found here enable astronomers to examine star...
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News Release: First 3D map of the Universe's Dark Matter scaffolding
07-Jan-2007: By analysing the COSMOS survey – the largest ever survey undertaken with Hubble – an international team of scientists has assembled one of the most important results in cosmology: a three-dimensional ...
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News Release: Star on a Hubble diet
11-Dec-2006: High-resolution observations from Hubble have shed light on the real mass of a star previously believed to be amongst the heaviest known in our Milky Way. Originally, the mass of the star was thought ...
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News Release: New Hubble Servicing Mission to upgrade instruments
31-Oct-2006: After more than a decade of fascinating discoveries, The Hubble Space Telescope will soon be given the new beginning that it deserves. Today, NASA has decided to approve a Space Shuttle mission to rep...
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Photo Release: Latest views of the V838 Monocerotis light echo from Hubble
26-Oct-2006: Hubble has returned to the intriguing V838 Monocerotis many times since its initial outburst in 2002 to follow the evolution of its light echo. Two new images provide the most astonishing views of V83...
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News Release: Hubble yields direct proof of stellar sorting in a globular cluster
24-Oct-2006: A seven year study with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the best observational evidence yet that globular clusters sort out stars according to their mass, governed by...
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Photo Release: Colliding galaxies make love, not war
17-Oct-2006: A new Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars...
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News Release: Flies in a spider's web: Galaxy caught in the making
12-Oct-2006: New Hubble images have provided a dramatic glimpse of a large massive galaxy under assembly as smaller galaxies merge. This has commonly been thought to be the way galaxies grew in the young Universe,...
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News Release: Hubble observations confirm that planets form from disks around stars
09-Oct-2006: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with ground-based observatories, has at last confirmed what philosopher Emmanuel Kant and scientists have long predicted: that planets form from d...
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News Release: Hubble finds 16 candidate extrasolar planets far across our Galaxy
04-Oct-2006: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates that are orbiting a variety of distant stars. In accomplishing this, Hubble looked farther into our Milky Way galaxy ...
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News Release: Hubble finds hundreds of young galaxies in the early Universe
21-Sep-2006: Astronomers analyzing two of the deepest views of the cosmos made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a gold mine of galaxies, more than 500 that existed less than a billion years ...
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News Release: Planet or failed star? Hubble photographs one of the smallest stellar companions ever seen
07-Sep-2006: Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have photographed one of the smallest objects ever seen around a normal star beyond our Sun. Weighing in at 12 times the mass of Jupiter, the obje...
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Photo Release: Cassiopeia A - The colourful aftermath of a violent stellar death
29-Aug-2006: A new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at the tattered remains of a supernova explosion known as Cassiopeia A (Cas A). It is the youngest known remnant fro...
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News Release: Hubble sees faintest stars in a globular cluster
17-Aug-2006: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered what astronomers are reporting as the dimmest stars ever seen in any globular star cluster.
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Photo Release: Large and small stars in harmonious coexistence
14-Aug-2006: The latest photo from the Hubble Space Telescope, presented at the 2006 General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Prague this week, shows a star forming region in the Large Magellani...
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Photo Release: Hubble captures a 'five-star' rated gravitational lens
23-May-2006: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first-ever picture of a distant quasar lensed into five images. In addition the image holds a treasure of lensed galaxies and even a supernova.
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News Release: Hubble provides spectacular view of ongoing comet breakup
27-Apr-2006: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is providing astronomers with extraordinary views of comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 as it disintegrates before our eyes. Recent Hubble images have uncovered many ...
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Photo Release: Happy sweet sixteen, Hubble Space Telescope
24-Apr-2006: To celebrate the NASA-ESA Hubble Space Telescope's 16 years of success, the two space agencies are releasing this mosaic image of the magnificent starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82). It is the sharpest...
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Photo Release: Magellanic gemstones in the southern sky
18-Apr-2006: Hubble has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud - two sparkling sets of gemstones in the southern sky.
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Photo Release: Largest ever Hubble galaxy portrait - stunning HD image of Pinwheel Galaxy
28-Feb-2006: This new Hubble image reveals the gigantic Pinwheel galaxy, one of the best known examples of "grand design spirals", and its supergiant star-forming regions in unprecedented detail. The image is the ...
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News Release: Hubble panoramic view of Orion Nebula reveals thousands of stars
11-Jan-2006: In one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is offering an unprecedented look at the Orion Nebula. This turbulent star-formation region is one of...
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News Release: Astronomers use Hubble to 'weigh' Dog Star's companion
13-Dec-2005: White dwarfs are important to theories of both stellar and cosmological evolution. New results published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society provide for the first time an accurate...
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Photo Release: Most detailed image of the Crab Nebula
01-Dec-2005: A new Hubble image - among the largest ever produced with the Earth-orbiting observatory - gives the most detailed view so far of the entire Crab Nebula. The Crab is arguably the single most interest...
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Photo Release: Young stars sculpt gas with powerful outflows
10-Nov-2005: This Hubble Space Telescope view shows one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite...
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News Release: Spitzer and Hubble find a 'big baby' galaxy in the newborn Universe
27-Sep-2005: Two space observatories, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, have teamed up to "weigh" the stars in several very distant galaxies. One of these galaxies is not only...
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News Release: Hubble finds mysterious disk of blue stars around a black hole
20-Sep-2005: Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Though the...
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News Release: Black hole in search of a home
14-Sep-2005: The detection of a super massive black hole without a massive host galaxy is the surprising result from a large Hubble and VLT study of quasars. This is the first convincing discovery of such an objec...
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News Release: FITS for fun - create spectacular pictures in minutes
08-Aug-2005: With the release of version 2 of the popular ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator image processing software it is now easier and faster than ever before to create colour images from raw observations ...
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Photo Release: Hubble captures Deep Impact's collision with a comet
04-Jul-2005: This series of Hubble Space Telescope images captures the ejection of a bright plume of dust following the July 4 collision between an 370 kilogram projectile released by the Deep Impact spacecraft an...
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Photo Release: Hubble captures outburst from comet targeted by Deep Impact
27-Jun-2005: In a dress rehearsal for the rendezvous between NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft and comet 9P/Tempel 1, the Hubble Space Telescope captured dramatic images of a new jet of dust streaming from the icy com...
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Photo Release: Supernova remnant menagerie
07-Jun-2005: A violent and chaotic-looking mass of gas and dust is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a nearby supernova remnant. Denoted N 63A, the object is the remains of a massive star that exploded,...
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News Release: Hubble celebrates 15th anniversary with spectacular new images
25-Apr-2005: During the 15 years that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has orbited the Earth, it has taken three-quarters of a million photos of the cosmos - images that have awed, astounded and even confounded...
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News Release: Hubble's 15th Anniversary - an opportunity too good to miss!
14-Apr-2005: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the biggest scientific projects of all time and is approaching the 15th anniversary of its launch. To mark the event on 24 April, the European Space Agenc...
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News Release: Saturn's aurorae defy scientists' expectations
16-Feb-2005: The dancing light of the auroras on Saturn behaves in ways different from how scientists have thought possible for the last 25 years. New research by a team of US and European planetary scientists led...
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Photo Release: Light continues to echo three years after stellar outburst
03-Feb-2005: The Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures. The effect, called a light echo, h...
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Photo Release: Hubble finds infant stars in neighbouring galaxy
12-Jan-2005: Hubble astronomers have uncovered, for the first time, a population of infant stars in the Milky Way satellite galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC, visible to the naked eye in the southern constel...
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News Release: Hubble's infrared eyes home in on suspected extrasolar planet
10-Jan-2005: Unique follow up observations carried out with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are providing important supporting evidence for the existence of a candidate planetary companion to a relatively brig...
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Photo Release: Symphony of colours in the Tarantula
15-Dec-2004: The Tarantula Nebula is the most vigorous star forming region known in the local Universe. Using the power of the freely available ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator package a young amateur astrono...
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News Release: Stellar survivor from 1572 A.D. explosion supports supernova theory
27-Oct-2004: An international team of astronomers is announcing today that they have identified the probable surviving companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed in the year 1572 by the great Danish...
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Photo Release: Dying star creates fantasy-like sculpture of gas and dust
09-Sep-2004: A new study of a large number of planetary nebulae has revealed that rings, such as those seen here around the Cat's Eye Nebula, are much more common that thought so far and have been found in at leas...
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Photo Release: Hubble peers inside a celestial geode
12-Aug-2004: In this unusual image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode - a gas cavity carved by the stellar wind and intense ultraviolet radiation from ...
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News Release: FITS format liberation - DIY astronomical images with the expert touch
08-Jul-2004: For many years astronomical images from the world's telescopes were reserved for an elite of astronomers and technical people. Now anyone with a desktop computer running Adobe" Photoshop" software can...
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Photo Release: Hubble studies generations of star formation in neighbouring galaxy
01-Jul-2004: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the iridescent tapestry of star birth in a neighbouring galaxy in this panoramic view of glowing gas, dark dust clouds, and young, hot stars. The star-form...
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News Release: First direct measurement of the mass of ultra-cool brown dwarf binary
15-Jun-2004: An international team of astronomers using the world's biggest telescopes have directly measured the mass of an ultra-cool brown dwarf star and its companion dwarf star for the first time. Barely the ...
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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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