heic0604
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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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heic0603
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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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heic0602
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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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heic0601
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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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heic0516
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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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