"A Look to the Heavens"

“Here in the Milky Way galaxy we have astronomical front row seats as M81 and M82 face-off, a mere 12 million light-years away. Locked in a ...

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"A Look to the Heavens"

“Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 lies some 70 million light-years away on the banks of the constellation Eridanus. This Hubble...

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"A Look to the Heavens"

“An asterism is just a recognized pattern of stars that is not one the 88 official constellations. For example, one of the most famous (and ...

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"A Look to the Heavens"

“This weekend, meteors will rain down near the peak of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. Normally bright and colorful, the Perseid shower me...

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"A Look to the Heavens"

“Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star ...

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"A Look to the Heavens"

“Most galaxies don't have any rings - why does this galaxy have two? To begin, the bright band near NGC 1512's center is a nuclear r...

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"A Look to the Heavens"

“Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, published over 100 years ago, predicted the phenomenon of gravitational lensing. And th...

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