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Fancy doing a Messier Marathon this Weekend?

[/caption] If you are new to astronomy, you may ask "what is a Messier Marathon and how do I do…

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[/caption] The Japanese Suzaku X-ray telescope has just taken a close look at the Perseus galaxy cluster, and revealed it's…

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[/caption] We live on a planet which orbits a star, and along with a hundred billion other stars, our Sun…

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[/caption] Hubble has edged in close to the Tarantula Nebula, peering into its bright center of ionized gases, dust and…

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[/caption] The galaxies above are among the oldest objects astronomers have ever laid eyes -- er, telescopes -- on, formed…

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[/caption] Messier 82's galactic windstorms emanate from many young star clusters, rather than any single source, say astronomers who released…

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[/caption] Looking out my own window this morning provides a gloomy overcast view, so this new image from the Spitzer…

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[/caption] One of our celestial neighbors, the spiral galaxy NGC 247, just moved about a million light-years closer. Well, not…

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[/caption] Astronomers have long suspected that something must stymie actively growing black holes, because most galaxies in the local universe…

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[/caption] Kitt Peak. Los Alamos. St. Croix. Pie Town. What do these places have in common? They each house one…

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