heic0413
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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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heic0411
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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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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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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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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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