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2008
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10/30/2008
STScI-2008-37
3. Hubble Scores a Perfect Ten
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera... (More)
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9/16/2008
STScI-2008-33
7. Galaxy Silhouettes
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare alignment between two spiral galaxies. The outer rim of a small, foreground galaxy is silhouetted in front of a larger background galaxy. Skeletal... (More)
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7/17/2008
STScI-2008-27
13. Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter
This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere. (More)
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6/3/2008
STScI-2008-21
18. White Dwarf Lost in Planetary Nebula
Call it the case of the missing dwarf. A team of stellar astronomers is engaged in an interstellar CSI (crime scene investigation). They have two suspects, traces of assault... (More)
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5/22/2008
STScI-2008-23
19. New Red Spot Appears on Jupiter
In what's beginning to look like a case of planetary measles, a third red spot has appeared alongside its cousins — the Great Red Spot and Red Spot Jr. — in the turbulent... (More)
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4/24/2008
STScI-2008-16
24. Cosmic Collisions Galore!
Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars. But galaxies have a dynamical side. They have close encounters that sometimes... (More)
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4/10/2008
STScI-2008-17
25. Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking Explosion
Peering across 7.5 billion light-years and halfway back to the Big Bang, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the fading optical counterpart of a powerful... (More)
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3/4/2008
STScI-2008-13
29. The Last Confessions of a Dying Star
Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying Sun-like star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of previously unseen structures in planetary... (More)
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1/10/2008
STScI-2008-01
36. Circumstellar Dust Takes Flight in 'The Moth'
What superficially resembles a giant moth floating in space is giving astronomers new insight into the formation and evolution of planetary systems. This is not your typical... (More)
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1/10/2008
STScI-2008-04
37. Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring
The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring... (More)
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2007
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12/18/2007
STScI-2007-45
40. Mars: Closest Approach 2007
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 55 million miles – 88 million kilometers – away. This color image was assembled from a series of exposures... (More)
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12/4/2007
STScI-2007-42
44. How White Dwarfs Get Their 'Kicks'
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is providing strong evidence that white dwarfs, the burned-out relics of stars, are given a "kick" when they form. The sharp vision of Hubble's Advanced... (More)
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11/29/2007
STScI-2007-41
45. Holiday Wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope
Resembling festive lights on a holiday wreath, this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the nearby spiral galaxy M74 is an iconic reminder of the impending season. (More)
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11/15/2007
STScI-2007-40
46. Hubble Zooms In on Heart of Mystery Comet
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has probed the bright core of Comet 17P/Holmes, which, to the delight of sky watchers, mysteriously brightened by nearly a millionfold... (More)
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10/16/2007
STScI-2007-35
49. Hubble Finds 'Dorian Gray' Galaxy
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope quashed the possibility that what was previously believed to be a toddler galaxy in the nearby universe may actually be considered an adult. (More)
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9/11/2007
STScI-2007-33
52. Hubble Captures Stars Going Out in Style
The colorful, intricate shapes in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope images reveal how the glowing gas ejected by dying Sun-like stars evolves dramatically over time. (More)
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8/2/2007
STScI-2007-30
56. Uncovering the Veil Nebula
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographed three magnificent sections of the Veil Nebula -- the shattered remains of a supernova that exploded thousands of years ago. This series of images provides... (More)
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5/28/2007
STScI-2007-19
64. Hubble Photographs Grand Design Spiral Galaxy M81
The sharpest image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy M81 is being released today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. A spiral-shaped... (More)
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5/15/2007
STScI-2007-17
65. Hubble Finds Ring of Dark Matter
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago during a titanic collision between two massive galaxy clusters. (More)
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5/1/2007
STScI-2007-20
68. HubbleSite Wins Top International Honor
The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for the Internet, has selected HubbleSite.org for the Best Science Website of 2007. HubbleSite also won the accompanying People's... (More)
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4/24/2007
STScI-2007-16
69. The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme
In celebration of the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic... (More)
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4/3/2007
STScI-2007-15
70. Hubble's View of Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 unveils details in the galaxy’s star-forming clouds and dark bands of interstellar dust. (More)
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3/20/2007
STScI-2007-13
71. Saturn Stars in Three Hubble Movies
Photogenic Saturn has now become a movie star. Astronomers have woven NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Saturn, its rings, and several of its moons into three movies. (More)
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2/13/2007
STScI-2007-09
76. The Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our Sun. The star is ending its life by casting... (More)
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2/5/2007
STScI-2007-08
77. Hubble Illuminates Cluster of Diverse Galaxies
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the diverse collection of galaxies in a galaxy cluster called Abell S0740, located more than 450 million light-years away in the constellation... (More)
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2006
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12/19/2006
STScI-2006-55
84. Celestial Season's Greetings from Hubble
Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic view of LH 95, located in the Large Magellanic... (More)
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12/11/2006
STScI-2006-54
85. Heavyweight Stars Light Up Nebula NGC 6357
The small open star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the large emission nebula NGC 6357 in Scorpius, about 8,000 light-years away from Earth. Some of the stars in this cluster... (More)
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10/31/2006
STScI-2006-53
88. Hubble Servicing Mission 4
NASA announced today plans for a fifth servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Shuttle astronauts will visit the telescope to extend and improve the observatory's capabilities through... (More)
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10/19/2006
STScI-2006-48
91. Mars May Be Cozy Place for Hardy Microbes
A class of especially hardy microbes that live in some of the harshest Earthly environments could flourish on cold Mars and other chilly planets, according to a research... (More)
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10/16/2006
STScI-2006-46
92. Super Star Clusters in the Antennae Galaxies
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions... (More)
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10/12/2006
STScI-2006-45
93. Hubble Captures Galaxy in the Making
Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have provided a dramatic glimpse of a large and massive galaxy under assembly by the merging of smaller, lighter galaxies. Astrophysicists... (More)
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