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Hubble's New Camera Delivers
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Hubble's New Camera Delivers Breathtaking Views of the Universe |
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What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble's Infrared Camera is
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Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released |
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What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble's Infrared Camera is
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Hubble's Infrared Camera is Back in Business ? New Images Released |
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What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Reveals Complex Circu
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Hubble Reveals Complex Circumstellar Disk |
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What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Far-Flung Supernovae Shed Li
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Far-Flung Supernovae Shed Light on Dark Universe |
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Deepest View of Space Yields
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Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo |
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Scientists Find Faint Object
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Scientists Find Faint Objects with Hubble that May Have Ended the Universe's 'Dark Ages' |
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What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Probes the Heart of a
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Hubble Probes the Heart of a Nearby Quasar |
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What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Rainbow Image of a Dusty Sta
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Rainbow Image of a Dusty Star |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Iridescent Glory of Nearby P
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Iridescent Glory of Nearby Planetary Nebula Showcased on Astronomy Day |
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Supernova Shock Wave Paints
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Supernova Shock Wave Paints Cosmic Portrait |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Deepest View of Space Yields
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Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo |
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Celestial Composition
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Celestial Composition |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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The Secret Lives of Galaxies
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The Secret Lives of Galaxies Unveiled in Deep Survey |
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The Secret Lives of Galaxies
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The Secret Lives of Galaxies Unveiled in Deep Survey |
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Hubble's Deepest View Ever o
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Hubble's Deepest View Ever of the Universe Unveils Earliest Galaxies |
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Light Continues to Echo Thre
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Light Continues to Echo Three Years After Stellar Outburst |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Oldest Known Planet Identifi
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Oldest Known Planet Identified |
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What is a NASA Science Update? Major Hubble discoveries on NASA television ... Astronomers explain their Hubble discoveries at a press conference, called a NASA Science Update (NSU), broadcast on NASA television. The NSU includes a question and answer session with members of the media. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Heritage Project Celebrates
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Heritage Project Celebrates Five Years of Harvesting the Best Images from Hubble Space Telescope |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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NASA Space Observatories Gli
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NASA Space Observatories Glimpse Faint Afterglow of Nearby Stellar Explosion |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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NASA's Hubble Looks for Poss
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NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources |
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Young Stars Sculpt Gas with
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Young Stars Sculpt Gas with Powerful Outflows |
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Hubble's Deepest View Ever o
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Hubble's Deepest View Ever of the Universe Unveils Earliest Galaxies |
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Hubble Panoramic View of Ori
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Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars |
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What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. In one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look at the Orion Nebula. This turbulent star formation region is one of astronomy's most WATCH: HubbleMinute Video Hubble Minute: Hubble Snaps the Clearest View of the Orion Nebula Hubble Minute: Hubble Snaps the Clearest View of the Orion Nebula [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/01/video/a/ ] READ: Junior version of this article Amazing Space Learn about this story in the Star Witness, a science newspaper available on our sister site, Amazing Space. [ http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/news/archive/2006/01/ ] dramatic and photogenic celestial objects. More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image. Some of them have never been seen in visible light. These stars reside in a dramatic dust-and-gas landscape of plateaus, mountains, and valleys that are reminiscent of the Grand Canyon. The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars that are shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars. Read more: * NASA Press Release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/01/text/ ] * The Full Story [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/01/full/ ] |
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Hubble's Deepest View Ever o
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Hubble's Deepest View Ever of the Universe Unveils Earliest Galaxies |
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Hubble's Deepest View Ever o
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Hubble's Deepest View Ever of the Universe Unveils Earliest Galaxies |
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Hubble's Deepest View Ever o
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Hubble's Deepest View Ever of the Universe Unveils Earliest Galaxies |
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Supernova Shock Wave Is Prod
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Supernova Shock Wave Is Producing a Spectacular New Light Show |
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Supernova Shock Wave Is Prod
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Supernova Shock Wave Is Producing a Spectacular New Light Show |
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Hubble Snaps Images of a Pin
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Hubble Snaps Images of a Pinwheel-Shaped Galaxy |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. This dramatic spiral galaxy is one of the latest viewed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Stunning details of the face-on spiral galaxy, cataloged as NGC 1309, are captured in this color image. NGC 1309 was home to supernova SN 2002fk, whose light reached Earth in September 2002. NGC 1309 resides 100 million light-years (30 Megaparsecs) from Earth. It is one of about 200 galaxies that make up the Eridanus group of galaxies. |
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Hubble's Largest Galaxy Port
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Hubble's Largest Galaxy Portrait Offers a New High-Definition View |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Giant galaxies weren?t assembled in a day. Neither was this Hubble Space Telescope image of the face-on spiral galaxy Messier 101 (M101). It is the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy that has ever been released from Hubble. The galaxy?s portrait is actually composed of 51 individual exposures taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in March 1994, September 1994, June 1999, November 2002, and January 2003. The newly composed image also includes elements from images from ground-based photos. |
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Hubble's Largest Galaxy Port
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Hubble's Largest Galaxy Portrait Offers a New High-Definition View |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Giant galaxies weren?t assembled in a day. Neither was this Hubble Space Telescope image of the face-on spiral galaxy Messier 101 (M101). It is the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy that has ever been released from Hubble. The galaxy?s portrait is actually composed of 51 individual exposures taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in March 1994, September 1994, June 1999, November 2002, and January 2003. The newly composed image also includes elements from images from ground-based photos. |
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Nearby Dust Clouds in the Mi
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Nearby Dust Clouds in the Milky Way |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed dense knots of dust and gas in our Milky Way Galaxy. This cosmic dust is a concentration of elements that are responsible for the formation of stars in our galaxy and throughout the universe. These dark, opaque knots of gas and dust are called "Bok globules," and they are absorbing light in the center of the nearby emission nebula and star-forming region, NGC 281. These images were taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys in October 2005. NGC 281 is located nearly 9,500 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Cassiopeia. |
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Nearby Dust Clouds in the Mi
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Nearby Dust Clouds in the Milky Way |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed dense knots of dust and gas in our Milky Way Galaxy. This cosmic dust is a concentration of elements that are responsible for the formation of stars in our galaxy and throughout the universe. These dark, opaque knots of gas and dust are called "Bok globules," and they are absorbing light in the center of the nearby emission nebula and star-forming region, NGC 281. These images were taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys in October 2005. NGC 281 is located nearly 9,500 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Cassiopeia. |
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Hubble Sees Stars as Numerou
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Hubble Sees Stars as Numerous as Grains of Sand in Nearby Galaxy |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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The Lure of the Rings
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The Lure of the Rings |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Sees Galaxy on Edge
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Hubble Sees Galaxy on Edge |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. This is a unique view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves. The image highlights the galaxy's structure: a subtle, reddish bulge surrounding a bright nucleus, a blue disk of stars running parallel to the dust lane, and a transparent outer halo. NGC 5866 is a disk galaxy of type "S0" (pronounced s-zero). Viewed face on, it would look like a smooth, flat disk with little spiral structure. It remains in the spiral category because of the flatness of the main disk of stars as opposed to the more spherically rotund (or ellipsoidal) class of galaxies called "ellipticals." Such S0 galaxies, with disks like spirals and large bulges like ellipticals, are called 'lenticular' galaxies. NGC 5866 lies in the Northern constellation Draco, at a distance of 44 million light-years. It has a diameter of roughly 60,000 light-years only two-thirds the diameter of the Milky Way, although its mass is similar to our galaxy. This Hubble image of NGC 5866 is a combination of blue, green and red observations taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys in February 2006. |
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Hubble Snaps Baby Pictures o
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Hubble Snaps Baby Pictures of Jupiter's "Red Spot Jr. |
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Hubble Sees Galaxy on Edge
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Hubble Sees Galaxy on Edge |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. This is a unique view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves. The image highlights the galaxy's structure: a subtle, reddish bulge surrounding a bright nucleus, a blue disk of stars running parallel to the dust lane, and a transparent outer halo. NGC 5866 is a disk galaxy of type "S0" (pronounced s-zero). Viewed face on, it would look like a smooth, flat disk with little spiral structure. It remains in the spiral category because of the flatness of the main disk of stars as opposed to the more spherically rotund (or ellipsoidal) class of galaxies called "ellipticals." Such S0 galaxies, with disks like spirals and large bulges like ellipticals, are called 'lenticular' galaxies. NGC 5866 lies in the Northern constellation Draco, at a distance of 44 million light-years. It has a diameter of roughly 60,000 light-years only two-thirds the diameter of the Milky Way, although its mass is similar to our galaxy. This Hubble image of NGC 5866 is a combination of blue, green and red observations taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys in February 2006. |
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Cassiopeia A - The Colorful
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Cassiopeia A - The Colorful Aftermath of a Violent Stellar Death |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. A new image taken with NASA's 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 from a supernova explosion in the Milky Way. The new Hubble image shows the complex and intricate structure of the star's shattered fragments. The image is a composite made from 18 separate images taken in December 2004 using Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). |
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Hubble Sees Faintest Stars i
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Hubble Sees Faintest Stars in a Globular Cluster |
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Extraterrestrial Fireworks
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Extraterrestrial Fireworks |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a cosmic explosion that is quite similar to fireworks on Earth. In the nearby galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, a massive star has exploded as a supernova, and begun to dissipate its interior into a spectacular display of colorful filaments. The greenish-blue supernova remnant, E0102, resides 50 light-years away from the edge of a bright glowing massive star-forming region. |
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Heavyweight Stars Light Up N
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Heavyweight Stars Light Up Nebula NGC 6357 |
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Hubble Sees Star Cluster "In
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Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality |
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What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that young stellar nurseries, called open star clusters, have very short lives. This is gleaned from new observations by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys that were used to do a "Where's Waldo" search for blue stars tossed out of their open cluster "nest" in the nearby galaxy known as NGC 1313. Read more: * The Full Story [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/05/full/ ] |
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A Day in the Lives of Galaxi
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A Day in the Lives of Galaxies |
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Hubble Sees Star Cluster "In
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Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality |
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What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that young stellar nurseries, called open star clusters, have very short lives. This is gleaned from new observations by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys that were used to do a "Where's Waldo" search for blue stars tossed out of their open cluster "nest" in the nearby galaxy known as NGC 1313. Read more: * The Full Story [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/05/full/ ] |
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Hubble Maps the Cosmic Web o
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Hubble Maps the Cosmic Web of "Clumpy" Dark Matter in 3-D |
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What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has created a three-dimensional map that provides the first direct look at the large-scale distribution of dark matter in the universe. Read more: * NASA Press Release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/01/text/ ] * The Full Story [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/01/full/ ] |
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Hubble Pans Across Heavens t
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Hubble Pans Across Heavens to Harvest 50,000 Evolving Galaxies |
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Hubble Approaches the Final
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Hubble Approaches the Final Frontier: The Dawn of Galaxies |
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Hubble Observes Infant Stars
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Hubble Observes Infant Stars in Nearby Galaxy |
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What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. This new image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope depicts bright, blue, newly formed stars that are blowing a cavity in the center of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud. |
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