heic0212
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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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heic0211
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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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heic0210
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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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heic0209
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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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heic0208
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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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heic0207
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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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heic0206
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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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heic0205
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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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heic0204
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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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heic0203
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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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heic0202
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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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heic0201
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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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