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• Globular Clusters Await: Hello, Messier 3!

  Globular cluster season is here. Time to get out your charts, binoculars, and telescopes and enjoy these wondrous objects.

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• Comet SWAN's Final Song

  Despite early expectations Comet SWAN appears to be fizzling, providing yet another opportunity to appreciate what makes these objects so unique.

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• Astronomers Witness the Birth of Planets

  Two new sets of observations show astronomers what planet formation looks like.

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• NASA Renames WFIRST: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

  NASA is renaming its next flagship space observatory to honor pioneering NASA astronomer and "Mother of Hubble," Nancy Grace Roman.

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• See Spring's Finest Spiral Galaxies

  On Earth we find spirals in sunflowers and snails, but to see it expressed in something as enormous as a galaxy transforms this familiar pattern into something truly grand. That's what I feel when I point my scope at the Whirlpool Galaxy and see its billions of suns arranged in the whorls of a spiral. Grandeur.

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• Rotating Disk in Early Universe Explains Galaxy Formation

  The discovery of a stably rotating disk galaxy in the early universe is the best indicator yet for how galaxies like the Milky Way formed.

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• Astronomers Investigate Stellar Interiors

  Astronomers have untangled the constantly changing brightness of variable stars known as Delta Scuti stars, yielding estimates for their ages.

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• See the Phases of Venus

  If you have a set of binoculars or a telescope, watch for Venus’s thinning crescent over the next couple weeks.

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• Medieval "Dark Eclipse" Helps Date Ice Cores — and Time Volcanic Eruptions

  Scientists have used a famous "dark eclipse" of the Moon to help date ice cores collected in Greenland and the Antarctic.

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• Black Hole Duo Flares Right on Time

  Astronomers have forecast a flare from a supermassive black hole duo 3.5 billion light-years away.

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