Greetings stargazers.
There is a dragon in our night sky. Draco is one of the circumpolar constellations that is above the northern horizon year-round, but is especially well-positioned to pick out at.
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New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have provided humankind with glimpses of the cosmos in unprecedented clarity. Closer to home, the small observatory at Fort Lewis College in Durango i.
"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad." -Sophocles
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Greetings, stargazers.
For many amateur astronomers with small telescopes, spring is galaxy season. At any moderately dark site, which includes most of the Four Corners, you can see scores of these faint, fuzzy, blotches. Unfortunately, fuzzy blotches are all that one can typically see without either photographic assistance, or a bigger scope. With practice, however, you can learn to distinguish all the subtle variations in the shapes of these objects.
Galaxies have historically been categorized into three general groups – elliptical, spiral and irregular.