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2013
2012
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7/17/2012
STScI-2012-28
8. Why Is Earth So Dry?
With large swaths of oceans, rivers that snake for hundreds of miles, and behemoth glaciers near the north and south poles, Earth doesn't seem to have a water shortage. (More)
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7/3/2012
STScI-2012-30
9. NASA's Hubble Views a Cosmic Skyrocket
Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets from the dense core of a cloud of molecular... (More)
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2011
2010
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7/22/2010
STScI-2010-19
27. Hyperfast Star Was Booted from Milky Way
A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it made a life-changing misstep. The trio wandered... (More)
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5/20/2010
STScI-2010-15
30. Hubble Finds Star Eating a Planet
"The Star That Ate My Planet" may sound like a B-grade science fiction movie title, but this is really happening 600 light-years away. Like a moth in a candle flame, a doomed Jupiter-sized... (More)
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2009
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9/9/2009
STScI-2009-25
34. Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. (More)
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4/1/2009
STScI-2009-15
36. Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet in Archival Data
In 19 years of observations, the Hubble Space Telescope has amassed a huge archive of data. That archive may contain the telltale glow of undiscovered extrasolar planets... (More)
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1/7/2009
STScI-2009-03
38. Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic'
Resembling comets streaking across the sky, these four speedy stars are plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas and creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing... (More)
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1/5/2009
STScI-2009-01
40. Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars
Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on studies of nearby multiple-star systems... (More)
2008
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1/10/2008
STScI-2008-01
45. 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)
2007
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12/4/2007
STScI-2007-42
47. 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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2006
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12/11/2006
STScI-2006-54
53. 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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2/7/2006
STScI-2006-07
64. Hubble Snaps Images of a Pinwheel-Shaped Galaxy
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... (More)
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2005
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12/1/2005
STScI-2005-37
70. A Giant Hubble Mosaic of the Crab Nebula
The Crab Nebula is a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent... (More)
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2004
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6/15/2004
STScI-2004-51
82. Ultra-cool Diminutive Star Weighs In
The power of the some of the world's biggest telescopes has been brought to bear to directly measure the mass, for the first time, of one of the smallest stars ever seen in the universe. (More)
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1/27/2004
STScI-2004-43
88. Massive Old Star Reveals Secrets on Deathbed
Like a doctor trying to understand an elderly patient's sudden demise, astronomers have obtained the most detailed observations ever of an old, but otherwise normal massive... (More)
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2003
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9/4/2003
STScI-2003-24
90. Celestial Composition
Amid a backdrop of far-off galaxies, the majestic dusty spiral NGC 3370 looms in the foreground in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Recent observations taken with the Advanced... (More)
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8/7/2003
STScI-2003-21
91. Too Close for Comfort
This Hubble Space Telescope view of the core of one of the nearest globular star clusters, called NGC 6397, resembles a treasure chest of glittering jewels. The cluster is located 8,200 light-years... (More)
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7/10/2003
STScI-2003-19
92. Oldest Known Planet Identified
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope precisely measured the mass of the oldest known planet in our Milky Way galaxy. At an estimated age of 13 billion years, the... (More)
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4/10/2003
STScI-2003-12
93. Far-Flung Supernovae Shed Light on Dark Universe
New Hubble Space Telescope observations of a pair of very distant exploding stars, called Type Ia supernovae, provide new clues about the accelerating universe and its mysterious... (More)
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1/6/2003
STScI-2003-02
96. Hubble Reveals Complex Circumstellar Disk
NASA Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has given astronomers their clearest view yet of the dust disk around a young, 5-million-year-old star. (More)
2002