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Associate Editor Liz Kruesi
Published: May 23, 2011 |
 | It wasn’t easy building the first mountaintop observatory, but the effort was worth it.
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Richard Talcott //
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Michael E. Bakich //
Published: May 23, 2011 |
 | Not only do these galactic pinups help astronomers learn how the universe works, but they’re also pretty easy on the eyes.
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Bill Andrews //
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 | Clyde Tombaugh’s discovery of Pluto in 1930 seemed to round out our planetary system, but astronomers have since found a vast expanse of similar objects in the Kuiper Belt.
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Richard Talcott //
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 | Even a small backyard telescope can reveal the orbital motion of a binary star.
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Glenn Chaple //
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