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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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heic0515
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Most detailed image of the Crab Nebula
01-Dec-2005: A new Hubble image - among the largest ever produced with the Earth-orbiting observatory - gives the most detailed view so far of the entire Crab Nebula. The Crab is arguably the single most interest...
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heic0514
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Young stars sculpt gas with powerful outflows
10-Nov-2005: This Hubble Space Telescope view shows one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite...
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heic0513
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Spitzer and Hubble find a ‘big baby' galaxy in the newborn Universe
27-Sep-2005: Two space observatories, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, have teamed up to "weigh" the stars in several very distant galaxies. One of these galaxies is not only...
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heic0512
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Hubble finds mysterious disk of blue stars around a black hole
20-Sep-2005: Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Though the...
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