Interesting Astronomy & Astrophysics news from the week of 1/3/2021

Next week’s night sky: Wednesday marks the new moon. This is a great time for stargazing because the moon will not blot out any stars! Look out for the Pleiades high in the sky, one of the most beautiful star clusters of the night sky. Hubble’s Beautiful Galaxy collisions To celebrate a new year, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has published a montage of six beautiful galaxy mergers. Each of these merging systems was studied as part of the recent HiPEEC survey to investigate the rate of […]

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