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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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heic0306
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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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heic0305
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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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heic0303
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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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