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| Hubble unmasks ghost galaxies [heic1211] |
| Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the smallest and faintest galaxies in our cosmic neighbourhood. These galaxies are fossils of the early Universe: they have barely changed for 13 billion years. The discovery could help explain the so-called "missing satellite" problem, where only a handful of satellite galaxies have been found around the Milky Way, against the thousands that are predicted by theories. |
| Date: 10 Jul 2012 |
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| A geyser of hot gas flowing from a star [heic1210] |
| The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of Herbig-Haro 110, a geyser of hot gas flowing from a newborn star. |
| Date: 03 Jul 2012 |
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| Dramatic change spotted on a faraway planet [heic1209] |
| Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have seen dramatic changes in the upper atmosphere of a faraway planet. Just after a violent flare on its parent star bathed it in intense X-ray radiation, the planet's atmosphere gave off a powerful burst of evaporation. The observations give a tantalising glimpse of the changing climates and weather on planets outside our Solar System. |
| Date: 28 Jun 2012 |
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| European Hubble archive moves to Spain |
| The European science archive for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been transferred to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villanueva de la Cañada near Madrid, Spain. This guarantees a permanent home for Hubble science data following the closure of the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), located at the headquarters of the European Southern Observatory near Munich, Germany. |
| Date: 22 Jun 2012 |
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| A trick of perspective - chance alignment mimics a cosmic collision [heic1208] |
| The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a highly detailed image of a pair of overlapping galaxies called NGC 3314. While the two galaxies look as if they are in the midst of a collision, this is in fact a trick of perspective: the two just happen to appear in the same direction from our vantage point. |
| Date: 14 Jun 2012 |
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| Hubble observes a dwarf galaxy with a bright nebula [heic1207] |
| The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made detailed observations of the dwarf galaxy NGC 2366. While it lacks the elegant spiral arms of many larger galaxies, NGC 2366 is home to a bright, star-forming nebula and is close enough for astronomers to discern its individual stars.
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| Date: 10 May 2012 |
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| Hubble's panoramic view of a turbulent star-making region [heic1206] |
| Several million stars are vying for attention in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula nebula. |
| Date: 17 Apr 2012 |
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| Glittering jewels of Messier 9 [heic1205] |
| The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the centre of the galaxy. This ball of stars is too faint to see with the naked eye, yet Hubble can see over 250 000 individual stars shining in it. |
| Date: 16 Mar 2012 |
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| Hubble reveals a new class of extrasolar planet [heic1204] |
| Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. It's smaller than Uranus but larger than Earth. |
| Date: 21 Feb 2012 |
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| Hubble finds relic of a shredded galaxy [heic1203] |
| Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found a cluster of young blue stars surrounding a mid-sized black hole called HLX-1. The discovery suggests that the black hole formed in the core of a now-disintegrated dwarf galaxy. The findings have important implications for understanding the evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies. |
| Date: 15 Feb 2012 |
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| Classic portrait of a barred spiral galaxy [heic1202] |
| The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a similar barred spiral, and the study of galaxies such as NGC 1073 helps astronomers learn more about our celestial home. |
| Date: 03 Feb 2012 |
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| Hubble pinpoints furthest protocluster of galaxies ever seen [heic1201] |
| Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of development, making it the most distant such grouping ever observed in the early Universe. |
| Date: 10 Jan 2012 |
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| Young star rebels against its parent cloud [heic1118] |
| Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 has captured this image of a giant cloud of hydrogen gas illuminated by a bright young star. The image shows how violent the end stages of the star-formation process can be, with the young object shaking up its stellar nursery. |
| Date: 15 Dec 2011 |
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| Hubble's 10 000th scientific paper published |
| The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has passed another milestone in its almost 21 years of observations: the publication of the 10 000th refereed scientific paper based on Hubble data. |
| Date: 06 Dec 2011 |
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| Hubble uncovers tiny galaxies bursting with starbirth in early Universe [heic1117] |
| Using its infrared vision to peer nine billion years back in time, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered an extraordinary population of tiny, young galaxies that are brimming with star formation. |
| Date: 10 Nov 2011 |
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| Hubble directly observes the disc around a black hole [heic 1116] |
| A team of scientists has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to observe a quasar accretion disc - a brightly glowing disc of matter that is slowly being sucked into its galaxy's central black hole. Their study makes use of a novel technique that uses gravitational lensing to give an immense boost to the power of the telescope. The incredible precision of the method has allowed astronomers to directly measure the disc's size and plot the temperature across different parts of the disc. |
| Date: 04 Nov 2011 |
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| Hubble survey carries out a dark matter census [heic 1115] |
| The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been used to make an image of galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847. The apparently distorted shapes of distant galaxies in the background is caused by an invisible substance called dark matter, whose gravity bends and distorts their light rays. MACS 1206 has been observed as part of a new survey of galaxy clusters using Hubble. |
| Date: 13 Oct 2011 |
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| Galaxy caught blowing bubbles [heic1114] |
| Hubble's famous images of galaxies typically show elegant spirals or soft-edged ellipses. But these neat forms are only representative of large galaxies. Smaller galaxies like the dwarf irregular galaxy Holmberg II come in many shapes and types that are harder to classify. This galaxy's indistinct shape is punctuated by huge glowing bubbles of gas, captured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. |
| Date: 29 Sep 2011 |
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| Hubble movies provide unprecedented view of supersonic jets from young stars [heic1113] |
| Astronomers have combined two decades of Hubble observations to make unprecedented movies revealing never-before-seen details of the birth pangs of new stars. This sheds new light on how stars like the Sun form. |
| Date: 31 Aug 2011 |
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| Four unusual views of the Andromeda Galaxy [heic1112] |
| The Andromeda Galaxy is revealed in unprecedented detail in four archive observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They show stars and structure in the galaxy's disc, the halo of stars that surrounds it, and a stream of stars left by a companion galaxy as it was torn apart and pulled in by the galaxy's gravitational forces. |
| Date: 21 Jul 2011 |
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