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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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