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From the June 2008 issue

Thirty-five years of stories

Read a sampling of stories from Astronomy since its beginning.

By Astronomy Staff | Published: June 23, 2008 | Last updated on May 18, 2023

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The Michelson-Morley experiment: Finding light’s true nature
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JWST uncovers how massive star clusters drive galaxy evolution
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$A telescopic photograph of a nearly face-on ringed spiral galaxy with a bright, glowing white-yellow core surrounded by multiple faint concentric blue-white spiral rings extending outward. The field is rich with distant background galaxies of various shapes and sizes scattered across the black sky, and a bright foreground star with prominent blue diffraction spikes is visible in the upper right.$

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