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Messier Monday: The Crab Nebula, M1
Posted by Ethan on October 22, 2012
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“This nebula had such a resemblance to a comet in its form and brightness that I endeavored to find others, so that astronomers would not confuse these same nebulae with comets just beginning to shine.” -Charles Messier Let’s take a journey back in time to when our known Universe was a lot smaller. The only…
Happy New Year, Pastafarians*
Posted by Ethan on September 26, 2012 
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery The great nebular structures stretching across our galaxy are evidence of the birth and deaths of stars, or so I — an astrophysicist…
