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News And Photo Releases (2007)


  heic0720
 
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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  heic0719
 
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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  heic0718
 
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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  heic0717
 
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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  heic0716
 
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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  heic0715
 
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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  heic0714
 
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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  heic0713
 
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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  heic0712
 
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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  heic0711
 
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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  heic0710
 
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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  heic0709
 
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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  heic0708
 
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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  heic0707
 
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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  heic0706
 
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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  heic0705
 
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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  heic0704
 
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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  heic0703
 
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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  heic0702
 
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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  heic0701
 
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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