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How many in the Quintet today?
Posted by Ethan on September 11, 2009
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Perhaps my favorite of the new Hubble pictures is this one of Stephan’s Quintet (and click here for the 1000 pixel wide version): It’s so stunning that it was chosen as today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. But yesterday, I got a very interesting question to go along with it: These galaxies are far away,…
