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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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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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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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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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News Release: 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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