Hyades

Hubble Observes Planet-”Polluted” Dead Stars In Hyades

May 10, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter For those of us who practice amateur astronomy, we’re very familiar with the 150 light-year distant Hyades star cluster – one of the jewels in the Taurus crown. We’ve looked at it countless times, but now the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope [...]

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Weekly SkyWatcher’s Forecast: November 12-18, 2012

November 11, 2012

Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! While we might have to contend with the Moon again, it’s still going to be a very exciting week because the Leonid Meteor Shower is back in town! The beginning of the week brings on the Pegasid meteors and we can all use a “warm up”! There’s plenty of things to do, [...]

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