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Astronomers find the ‘Greater Pleiades Complex’

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Discover great star clusters of the New General Catalogue

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Explore the constellation Cassiopeia

The Red Planet lights up a famous star cluster this month

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The best deep-sky targets in Taurus

The Skull Nebula

Deep-Sky Objects, Observing

Five ‘shy,’ lesser-known deep-sky gems to observe

Universe, Discovered

Universe, Discovered: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS fades

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Observe a great star cluster: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

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Explore the Hercules Cluster: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

The contributions from NASA’s Chandra X-ray data provide the blue and white flickering lights from young stars and the green pine needles come from the optical data collected by the National Science Foundation’s WIYN Observatory.

Astrophotography, Exotic Objects, Observing

Merry Christmas from the cosmos

A multi-wavelength photograph of of the galactic center, containing the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), and the young, target star cluster, IRS13. The image also shows foreground and background objects.

Exotic Objects, Milky Way, Science

Astronomers study an unlikely stellar fountain of youth

Constellation Perseus

Deep-Sky Objects

Binocular Universe: Heroic treasures