heic0313
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News Release: 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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heic0312
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News Release: 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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heic0311
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Photo Release: Waiting for a supernova
24-Sep-2003: A team of European astronomers is using the NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope to look back in time. They have imaged the spiral galaxy NGC 3982 and hundreds of other galaxies in the hope that one of th...
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heic0310
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News Release: 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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News Release: 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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heic0308
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Photo Release: 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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heic0307
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Photo Release: 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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heic0306
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News Release: 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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heic0305
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Photo Release: 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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News Release: 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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heic0303
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News Release: 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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heic0302
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Photo Release: Hubble resolves a blaze of stars in galaxy's core
06-Mar-2003: The central region of the small galaxy NGC 1705 blazes with the light of thousands of young and old stars. Astronomers call NGC 1705 a dwarf irregular, that is, a small galaxy lacking regular structur...
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heic0301
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Photo Release: The Boomerang Nebula - the coolest place in the Universe?
20-Feb-2003: The Boomerang Nebula is a young planetary nebula and the coldest object found in the Universe so far. The NASA /ESA Hubble Space Telescope image illustrates how Hubble's keen vision reveals surprises ...
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