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April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...
The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...
View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.
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Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula. Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA) Nebulae are all but impossible to spot in the night sky, but you'd ...
Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...
During the six days of overlap, the average night sky observer won’t be able to ... Starting just after sunset, the race begins with Orion Nebula, followed by the Pleiades star cluster ...