heic0821
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Hubble directly observes planet orbiting Fomalhaut
13-Nov-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible light snapshot of a planet circling another star.
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When it comes to galaxies, diversity is everywhere
30-Sep-2008: A group of galaxies in our cosmic backyard has given astronomers clues about how stars form. A thorough survey using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed around 14 million stars in 69 gala...
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heic0818
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Clash of clusters provides new dark matter clue
27-Aug-2008: A powerful collision between galaxy clusters has been captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This clash of clusters provides striking evidence for dark m...
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Hubble sees magnetic monster in erupting galaxy
20-Aug-2008: The Hubble Space Telescope has found the answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most ...
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heic0816
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Hubble unveils colourful star birth region on 100 000th orbit milestone
11-Aug-2008: In commemoration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope completing its 100 000th orbit around the Earth in its 18th year of exploration and discovery, scientists have aimed Hubble to take a snapshot o...
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Lenses galore - Hubble finds large sample of very distant galaxies
24-Jul-2008: New Hubble Space Telescope observations of six spectacular galaxy clusters acting as gravitational lenses have given significant insights into the early stages of the Universe. Scientists have found t...
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Hubble's sweeping view of the Coma Galaxy Cluster
10-Jun-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the Universe.
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heic0812
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The Antennae Galaxies move closer
09-May-2008: New research on the Antennae Galaxies using the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows that this benchmark pair of interacting galaxies is in fact much closer th...
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heic0810
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Galaxies gone wild!
24-Apr-2008: Fifty nine new images of colliding galaxies make up the largest collection of Hubble images ever released together. As this astonishing Hubble atlas of interacting galaxies illustrates, galaxy collisi...
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heic0809
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Black hole found in enigmatic Omega Centauri
02-Apr-2008: Omega Centauri has been known as an unusual globular cluster for a long time. A new result obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory reveals that the explanation behin...
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heic0807
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Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet
19-Mar-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step in eventually i...
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heic0806
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Hubble discovers 67 gravitationally lensed galaxies in the distant Universe
19-Feb-2008: Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have compiled a large catalogue of gravitational lenses in the distant Universe. The catalogue contains a staggering 67 new gravitationally lensed...
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heic0805
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Hubble finds strong contender for galaxy distance record
12-Feb-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with a boost from a natural ?zoom lens?, has found the strongest evidence so far for a galaxy with a redshift significantly above 7. It is likely to be one of the ...
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Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 ? a cosmic fossil?
05-Feb-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is, most likely, a cosmic fossil ? the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of c...
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heic0720
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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heic0619
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Star on a Hubble diet
11-Dec-2006: High-resolution observations from Hubble have shed light on the real mass of a star previously believed to be amongst the heaviest known in our Milky Way. Originally, the mass of the star was thought ...
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New Hubble Servicing Mission to upgrade instruments
31-Oct-2006: After more than a decade of fascinating discoveries, The Hubble Space Telescope will soon be given the new beginning that it deserves. Today, NASA has decided to approve a Space Shuttle mission to rep...
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Latest views of the V838 Monocerotis light echo from Hubble
26-Oct-2006: Hubble has returned to the intriguing V838 Monocerotis many times since its initial outburst in 2002 to follow the evolution of its light echo. Two new images provide the most astonishing views of V83...
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heic0616
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Hubble yields direct proof of stellar sorting in a globular cluster
24-Oct-2006: A seven year study with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the best observational evidence yet that globular clusters sort out stars according to their mass, governed by...
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heic0615
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Colliding galaxies make love, not war
17-Oct-2006: A new Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars...
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Flies in a spider's web: Galaxy caught in the making
12-Oct-2006: New Hubble images have provided a dramatic glimpse of a large massive galaxy under assembly as smaller galaxies merge. This has commonly been thought to be the way galaxies grew in the young Universe,...
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Hubble finds 16 candidate extrasolar planets far across our Galaxy
04-Oct-2006: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates that are orbiting a variety of distant stars. In accomplishing this, Hubble looked farther into our Milky Way galaxy ...
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heic0611
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Hubble finds hundreds of young galaxies in the early Universe
21-Sep-2006: Astronomers analyzing two of the deepest views of the cosmos made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a gold mine of galaxies, more than 500 that existed less than a billion years ...
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Cassiopeia A - The colourful aftermath of a violent stellar death
29-Aug-2006: A new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at the tattered remains of a supernova explosion known as Cassiopeia A (Cas A). It is the youngest known remnant fro...
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heic0607
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Large and small stars in harmonious coexistence
14-Aug-2006: The latest photo from the Hubble Space Telescope, presented at the 2006 General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Prague this week, shows a star forming region in the Large Magellani...
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heic0606
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Hubble captures a ?five-star' rated gravitational lens
23-May-2006: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first-ever picture of a distant quasar lensed into five images. In addition the image holds a treasure of lensed galaxies and even a supernova.
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Hubble provides spectacular view of ongoing comet breakup
27-Apr-2006: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is providing astronomers with extraordinary views of comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 as it disintegrates before our eyes. Recent Hubble images have uncovered many ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hubble captures Deep Impact's collision with a comet
04-Jul-2005: This series of Hubble Space Telescope images captures the ejection of a bright plume of dust following the July 4 collision between an 370 kilogram projectile released by the Deep Impact spacecraft an...
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Hubble captures outburst from comet targeted by Deep Impact
27-Jun-2005: In a dress rehearsal for the rendezvous between NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft and comet 9P/Tempel 1, the Hubble Space Telescope captured dramatic images of a new jet of dust streaming from the icy com...
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heic0507
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Supernova remnant menagerie
07-Jun-2005: A violent and chaotic-looking mass of gas and dust is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a nearby supernova remnant. Denoted N 63A, the object is the remains of a massive star that exploded,...
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heic0506
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Hubble celebrates 15th anniversary with spectacular new images
25-Apr-2005: During the 15 years that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has orbited the Earth, it has taken three-quarters of a million photos of the cosmos - images that have awed, astounded and even confounded...
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Hubble's 15th Anniversary - an opportunity too good to miss!
14-Apr-2005: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the biggest scientific projects of all time and is approaching the 15th anniversary of its launch. To mark the event on 24 April, the European Space Agenc...
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heic0504
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Saturn's aurorae defy scientists' expectations
16-Feb-2005: The dancing light of the auroras on Saturn behaves in ways different from how scientists have thought possible for the last 25 years. New research by a team of US and European planetary scientists led...
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heic0503
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Light continues to echo three years after stellar outburst
03-Feb-2005: The Hubble Space Telescope's latest image of the star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) reveals dramatic changes in the illumination of surrounding dusty cloud structures. The effect, called a light echo, h...
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Hubble finds infant stars in neighbouring galaxy
12-Jan-2005: Hubble astronomers have uncovered, for the first time, a population of infant stars in the Milky Way satellite galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC, visible to the naked eye in the southern constel...
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heic0416
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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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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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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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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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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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heic0407
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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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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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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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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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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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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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heic0313
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Record-breaking ancient galaxy clusters
31-Dec-2003: Studies of two distant galaxy clusters using a combination of the largest radio, optical and x-ray telescopes on the ground and in space have independently found that galaxies formed relatively early ...
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Mega starbirth cluster is biggest, brightest and hottest ever seen
30-Oct-2003: A mysterious arc of light found behind a distant cluster of galaxies has turned out to be the biggest, brightest and hottest star-forming region ever seen in space.
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Hubble assists Rosetta comet mission
05-Sep-2003: Results from the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope played a major role in preparing ESA 's ambitious Rosetta mission for its new target, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Hubble has been the critical to...
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heic0309
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Hubble tracks down a galaxy cluster's dark matter
17-Jul-2003: Using the powerful trick of gravitational lensing, a European and American team of astronomers have constructed an extensive ?mass map' of one of the most massive structures in our Universe. They beli...
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The mysterious 'Garden-sprinkler' nebula
22-May-2003: There are many mysterious objects seen in the night sky which are not really well understood.
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Eye-catching celestial helix
09-May-2003: In one of the largest and most detailed celestial images ever, astronomers today unveil the coil-shaped Helix Nebula to celebrate Astronomy Day.
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Finding the ashes of the first stars
30-Apr-2003: Recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the first stars formed as little as 200 million years after the Big Bang. This is much earlier than previously thought. Astronomers hav...
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A perfect storm of turbulent gases
24-Apr-2003: Like the fury of a raging sea, this anniversary image from the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a bubbly ocean of glowing hydrogen, oxygen, and sulphur gas in the extremely massive and luminous ...
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heic0304
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Hubble watches light echo from mysterious erupting star
26-Mar-2003: In January 2002, a moderately dim star in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn, suddenly became 600 000 times more luminous than our Sun. This made it temporarily the brightest star in our Milky W...
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European astronomers observe first evaporating planet
12-Mar-2003: Using the Hubble Space Telescope, for the first time, astronomers have observed the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet evaporating off into space. Much of this planet may eventually disappear, leaving...
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Missing link found between supernovae and black holes
18-Nov-2002: A nearby black hole, hurtling like a cannonball through the plane of our Milky Way, has provided possibly the best evidence yet that stellar-mass black holes are made in supernova explosions. This bla...
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Hubble gets revitalised in new Servicing Mission for more and better science!
15-Feb-2002: After nearly 12 years of incredible scientific discoveries, the ESA /NASA Hubble Space Telescope orbiting Earth is about to have another service visit. The purpose is to upgrade Hubble's systems and t...
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heic0107
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Hint of planet-sized drifters bewilders Hubble scientists
27-Jun-2001: Piercing the heart of a globular star cluster with its needle-sharp vision, the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered tantalising clues to what could potentially be a strange and unexpected p...
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heic0106
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Hubble unveils a galaxy in living colour
31-May-2001: An extensive, multi-wavelength study with the Hubble Space Telescope has shown the many faces of the galaxy NGC 1512. Hubble's unique vantage point high above the atmosphere allows scientists to see o...
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Hubble spies huge clusters of stars formed by ancient encounter
07-Mar-2001: Beautiful, detailed Hubble images of the centre of the prototypical starburst galaxy M82 point to a violent past. An ancient burst of star formation that gave birth to more than 100 super star cluster...
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