heic0416
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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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heic0415
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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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heic0414
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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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heic0413
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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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heic0412
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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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heic0411
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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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heic0410
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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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heic0409
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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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heic0408
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Photo Release: The remarkable Red Rectangle: A stairway to heaven?
11-May-2004: Astronomers may not have observed the fabled "Stairway to Heaven", but they have photographed something almost as intriguing: ladder-like structures surrounding a dying star.
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heic0407
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Photo Release: Demise in ice and fire
29-Apr-2004: The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. At its centre lies a superhot, dying star smothered in a blanket of hailstones. A new Hubble image reveals f...
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heic0406
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News Release: Hubble's deepest view ever of the Universe unveils earliest galaxies
09-Mar-2004: Astronomers today unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible Universe ever achieved by humankind. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), the million-second-long exposure reveals the first galaxi...
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heic0405
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Photo Release: V838 Monocerotis revisited: Space phenomenon imitates art
04-Mar-2004: Starry Night", Vincent van Gogh's famous painting, is renowned for its bold whorls of light sweeping across a raging night sky. Although this image of the heavens came only from the artist's restless ...
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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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