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Messier Monday: The Gateway Galaxy to Virgo, M60
Posted by Ethan on February 4, 2013
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“The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God—it’s full of stars!” -Dave Bowman, 2001: A Space Odyssey Back in October, we began a new, weekly series here called Messier Monday. Each Monday, we’ve taken a look at one of the 110 deep-sky objects that make up the Messier Catalogue, nebulous objects that might potentially be…
Say Goodbye to Virgo…
Posted by Ethan on March 13, 2008 Aaah, the Virgo cluster. A huge cluster of hundreds of galaxies, and our closest large neighbor in the Universe. People have known for a long time that although Virgo is still redshifting away from us, it isn’t quite as fast as we would expect from the Hubble expansion rate of the Universe. Does this mean…
