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CFHT's ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE WEEK ARCHIVE 1999-2001

Images released between November 1999 and January 2001


As of January 8th 2001, the Image of the week is no longer active
but check out the New CFHT Image of the Month that started in 2002!


08 November 1999: The Horsehead nebula
15 November 1999: The interacting galaxy systems NGC 2207/IC 2163
22 November 1999: The First Earth-Based Detection of an Asteroidal Satellite
29 November 1999: Satellites, Rings, and Arcs around Planet Neptune
06 December 1999: The Andromeda Galaxy and its Satellite NGC 205
13 December 1999: Thermal Inertia of Saturn's Ring Particles
20 December 1999: A Christmas Deconvolution Artefact?
03 January 2000: Spectacular Mass-Loss Events in Young Stars
10 January 2000: A Close Look at Arp 299
17 January 2000: Cassiopeiae A: A Young Supernova Remnant
31 January 2000: NGC 2244, A Stellar Cluster in The Rosette Nebula
7 February 2000: Uranus: Ground-based detection of the minor satellite Portia
14 February 2000: Observational Cosmology: A Cluster of Galaxies at High Redshift
21 February 2000: Gravitational Lensing: giant arc caused by the galaxy cluster Abell 370
28 February 2000: A Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy
6 March 2000: The observation of the optical counterpart of a Gamma Ray Burster
13 March 2000: The Pleiades: A family Portrait
20 March 2000: Our Sun... A long long time ago?
24 April 2000: A Strange Collection of Stars at the Galactic Center
01 May 2000: The Mystery of Zeta Cancri Revealed
08 May 2000: Deuterium in Orion
15 May 2000: Exploring the Bar of NGC 2903
22 May 2000: Arp 105: The Guitar, or the Art of Cosmic Recycling!
29 May 2000: T Tauri: A Prototype for Star Formation?
5 June 2000: The CFHT Open Cluster Survey : NGC 2099
12 June 2000: The enigmatic stars of Dr. Wolf and Mr.Rayet
19 June 2000: The Young and Active DG Tauri
10 July 2000: The Moon: Earth's Satellite
24 July 2000: Messy young massive stars: dust in AFGL 4029
31 July 2000: The COMA cluster of galaxies
7 August 2000: The CFHT dome at night, atop Mauna Kea - 4,200 m elevation.
21 August 2000:PG 1700+518: A quasar with a companion starburst galaxy
28 August 2000:Abell 383: A Massive Lensing Cluster at z~0.2
04 September 2000: H2 filaments in NGC 2023
18 September 2000: First Images of TITAN's surface at 1.3 microns
2 October 2000: CW Leo: losing weight fast, and for good!
9 October 2000: The double barred Galaxy NGC 3504
23 October 2000: Inside the hourglass: a young massive star reveals its hatchlings
30 October 2000: CFHT preparing for its 21st anniversary !
6 November 2000: Kleopatra, the Flying Dog-Bone!
13 November 2000: First Light for CFHT-IR
27 November 2000: The CFHT / Coelum 2001 Deluxe Astronomical Calendar
4 December 2000: First light from GriF on PUEO
18 December 2000: NGC 253, a bright spiral galaxy in true colours
8 January 2001: NGC 1068: The Monster next to us!