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Rainbow Star Cluster Sparkles in Stunning Hubble Photo Hundreds of thousands of glittering stars shine in a cluster at the center of our galaxy in a new photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope. The cluster is called Messier 9, and contains hordes of stars swarming in a spherical cloud about 25,000 light-years from Earth. The object is too faint to be seen with the naked eye, and when it was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1764, the scientist could only resolve it as a faint smudge that he classified as a nebula ("cloud" in Latin). Read More...

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NASA Launching 5 Rockets to Light Up US East Coast Sky Tonight A quintuple rocket launch promises to put on a spectacular, but brief, overnight light show of luminescent vapor trails in the skies above the US East Coast tonight, weather permitting. Clues to ''Weird' Saturn Moon Found in Earth's Ice Astronomers hoping to shed light on how Saturn's "weird" moon Iapetus developed over time are taking cues from climate research of icy surfaces right here on Earth. Why Gas Giants Like Some Orbits More than Others Brush with the Sun: Skywatcher Spots Daredevil Comet Down Under