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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Discover Magazine's Dr. Phil Plait was inspired to highlight the scientific story about the SkyCenter's image of M82. M82 is a galaxy that is cherished by public stargazing programs since it is one of a few galaxies that can be seen well (visually) with the moon in the sky (or...
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Dr. Phil Plait of Discover Magazine highlighted the SkyCenter's image of NGC 4698. This galaxy is not often photographed...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day chose to publish the SkyCenter's image of M95 and its attendant supernova (SN 2012aw) in the outer spiral arms. This image is probably one of the first few high resolution color images of M95 that compares two epochs to show the supernova....
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
The SkyCenter's image of planetary nebula Abell 33 was highlighted on Dr. Phil Plait's blog for Discover Magazine!...
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Friday, March 9, 2012
The astronomers at NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day selected the recent SkyCenter image of NGC 1579 to be published on this day March 9th, 2012. Many nebulae that are visible towards the center of our Milky Way...
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Monday, February 13, 2012
The recently released SkyCenter image of Abell 31 was highlighted by Dr. Phil Plait of Discover Magazine today, February 13th, 2012. ...
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Monday, February 6, 2012
The European Space Agency (ESA) used the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter's image of the barred spiral galaxy,NGC 1073, to transition from a "ground-based" reference to a recently released Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image. The video starts zoomed out, showing the constellation in...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Early in January 2012 the light from a star that exploded in galaxy NGC 3239 reached the Earth. It took 25 million years to complete the journey and so today we witness this 25 million year old light! As this was the first supernova to be observed in 2012, Adam Block thought...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The SkyCenter recorded the recent supernova explosion in galaxy NGC 3239. Please read astronomer Phil Plait's article, from Discover Magazine, on the science behind these events!...
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Friday, January 13, 2012
University of Arizona journalist Savannah Martin interviews astronomer and host of the SkyCenter programs, Adam Block, about astrophotography.
See the article below:
