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“The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.” – Pierre Bonnard

“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.” – Vladimir Nabokov

A mere 600 light-years away, M44 is one of the closest star clusters to our solar system. Also known as the Praesepe or the Beehive cluster its stars are young though, about 600 million years old compared to our Sun’s 4.5 billion years. Based on similar ages and motion through space, M44 and the even […]

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NASA astronaut Victor Glover greets one of his youngest fans, 3-year-old Ezra Garrel. via NASA https://ift.tt/bpPjifL

“Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“Art is the objectification of feeling.” – Herman Melville

Sharp telescopic views of NGC 3628 show a puffy galactic disk divided by dark dust lanes. Of course, this portrait of the magnificent, edge-on spiral galaxy puts some astronomers in mind of its popular moniker, the Hamburger Galaxy. It also reveals a small galaxy nearby (below), likely a satellite of NGC 3628, and a very […]

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