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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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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