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• Comet Facts, Myths, & Legends
• Telescopes From the Ground Up

Star Witness news

• A Year to Celebrate Astronomy
• Albert Einstein: A Genius, Relatively Speaking
• Birthday Wishes for Hubble
• Close Encounters of the Galactic Kind
• Closing in on Saturn's Rings
• Dawn Spacecraft Will Go Asteroid-Hopping
• Exploring the Universe during IYA
• Hubble Celebrates a Stellar Anniversary
• Hubble Images Inspire Student Creativity
• Hubble Is Back in Business
• Hubble Makes One-Millionth Science Observation
• Hubble Offers a Dazzling View of the Necklace Nebula
• Hubble Reveals Orion in Picture-Perfect Glory
• Hubble Witnesses Fireworks From Comet Collision
• Hubble's Panoramic View of a Turbulent Star-Forming Region
• Hubble's Picture Book of the Universe
• Hubble: A Lunar Prospecting Machine
• Lunar Double Whammy — Spacecraft Hunt for Water on Moon
• New Horizons — A Pluto-bound Spacecraft Gets a Boost From Jupiter
• New Moons for Pluto!
• No Spring Picnic on Neptune
• Preparing for Hubble's Servicing Mission 4
• Returning Comet Holmes Dazzles Sky Watchers
• The Hubble Space Telescope: Time Machine to the Galaxies
• The Red Planet: Up Close and Personal
• What Comes Around, Goes Around
• Xena: The Tenth Planet?

Tales of …

• A butterfly emerging from stellar demise in planetary nebula
• A history of colliding galaxies: From oddballs to galaxy building blocks
• A history of the Crab Nebula
• Chasing the light from an ancient supernova
• Dust storms seen on Mars
• Extreme star birth in Carina Nebula
• Finding one of the brightest and youngest galaxies in the early universe
• Galactic wreckage in Stephan's Quintet
• Key events in the history of Centaurus A
• Key events in the history of Supernova 1987A
• Neptune's first circuit around Sun since its discovery
• New life in an ancient galaxy
• Peering through a dense cocoon of dust in the Carina Nebula
• Pluto's changing surface
• The colorful stars galore inside globular star cluster Omega Centauri
• The early cosmos: Out of the darkness
• The first image of a planet orbiting another star
• The glorious end of stellar life
• The hunt for life on other worlds

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