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F ck!! Last week when I was down at my cousins playing some guitar.. another buddy came over.. I say.. hey man!! hows it going J? "F ckin' horrible!! I'm getting divorced, losing the house, wife took all the money out of our account.. blew up my truck.. so.. I'm going to be homeless with no...

Messier 88 Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, U. Arizona Explanation: Charles Messier described the 88th entry in his 18th century catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters as a spiral nebula without stars. Of course the gorgeous M88 is now understood to be a galaxy...

Andromeda Island Universe Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh Explanation: The most distant object easily visible to the eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy some two and a half million light-years away. But without a telescope, even this immense spiral galaxy - spanning over 200,000...

Even with a pic I still have no clue who she is.. does that make me blissfully ignorant?

The Cat's Eye Nebula Credit: J. P. Harrington (U. Maryland) & K. J. Borkowski (NCSU) HST, NASA Explanation: Three thousand light-years away, a dying star throws off shells of glowing gas. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the Cat's Eye Nebula to be one of the most...

Light Echoes from V838 Mon Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI) Explanation: What caused this outburst of V838 Mon? For reasons unknown, star V838 Mon's outer surface suddenly greatly expanded with the result that it became the brightest star in the entire Milky Way...

M83's Center from Refurbished Hubble Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgement: R. O'Connell (U. Virginia) Explanation: What's happening at the center of spiral galaxy M83? Just about everything, from the looks of it. M83 is one of the closest...

M57: The Ring Nebula Credit: H. Bond et al., Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), NASA Explanation: It looks like a ring on the sky. Hundreds of years ago astronomers noticed a nebula with a most unusual shape. Now known as M57 or NGC 6720, the gas cloud became popularly known as the...

Young Stars in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Credit: NASA JPL-Caltech, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Explanation: Cosmic dust clouds and embedded newborn stars glow at infrared wavelengths in this tantalizing false-color view from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Pictured is of one of the closest star...

Art and Science in NGC 918 Credit & Copyright: Joseph Brimacombe Explanation: This beautiful telescopic skyscape features spiral galaxy NGC 918. The island universe is about 50,000 light-years across and lies some 60 million light-years away toward the constellation Aries. An...

Great Observatories Explore Galactic Center Credit: NASA, ESA, SSC, CXC, and STScI Explanation: Where can a telescope take you? Four hundred years ago, a telescope took Galileo to the Moon to discover craters, to Saturn to discover rings, to Jupiter to discover moons, to Venus to...

Saturn After Equinox Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA Explanation: The other side of Saturn's ring plane is now directly illuminated by the Sun. For the previous 15 years, the southern side of Saturn and its rings were directly illuminated, but since Saturn's equinox...

Stickney Crater Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA Explanation: Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet's moons in...

Ring Nebula Deep Field Credit & Copyright: Vicent Peris (DSA / OAUV / PixInsight), Jack Harvey (DSA / SSRO), Steve Mazlin (DSA / SSRO), Jose Luis Lamadrid (DSA / ceFca), Ana Guijarro (CAHA), RECTA, DSA. Explanation: A familiar sight to sky enthusiasts with even a small telescope...

Seven Sisters Versus California Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors) Explanation: On the upper right, dressed in blue, is the Pleiades. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and most easily visible open clusters on the...

Our Motto: Woe are "we" without the light of TJ to guide us. Our Mission Statement: "We" will enthusiastically spend every waking hour trying to find a way to get TJ to talk to us once more. Our Emblem: Welcome brother eddo... Make yourself at home.. Just don't sh t on the rug.. :D

VdB 152: Reflection Nebula in Cepheus Credit & Copyright: Stephen Leshin Explanation: Described as a "dusty curtain" or "ghostly apparition", mysterious reflection nebula VdB 152 really is very faint. Far from your neighborhood on this Halloween Night, the cosmic phantom is nearly...

The Bubble and M52 Credit & Copyright: Tony Hallas Explanation: To the eye, this cosmic composition nicely balances the Bubble Nebula at the upper right with open star cluster M52. The pair would be lopsided on other scales, though. Embedded in a complex of interstellar dust and...

M1: The Crab Nebula from Hubble Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester, A. Loll (ASU); Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (Skyfactory) Explanation: This is the mess that is left when a star explodes. The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova seen in 1054 AD, is filled with mysterious filaments...

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