... Tonight's Sky . ... Star Atlas . ... Hubble watches starsт?? clockwork motion in nearby galaxy . ... Hubble recorded the stars' slight movements during a seven-year period. ... Hubble's precision tracking offers a new way to determine a galaxy's rotation by the "sideways" proper motion of its stars, as seen in the plane of the sky. ... By using Hubble to study the stars' motions over several years, we can actually, for the first time, see a galaxy rotate in the plane of the sky," said van der Marel....

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... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : You can read by starlight. ... I will redo the math described below, taking it out to fainter magnitudes, and also include a sky brightness estimate. ... yet another) Note added (June 1, 2002) : An alert Bad Reader pointed out that of course you can read by starlight: the Sun is a star! ... There are about 6000 stars in the sky visible to the unaided eye, ranging in brightness from the star Sirius to stars you can only see by squinting. ...

This is an image of the Galaxy NGC3877 and the supernova 1998S in the constellation Ursa Major. ... As others have posted, the supernova is actually easier to see than the parent galaxy. I was able to see it when I was done imaging last night (3/28/98) with the Fastar 8 SCT at 221X . ... Back to Supernovae in NGC and IC galaxies . Back to Supernova 1998S images . David Bishop Last modified: Tue Oct 6 15:40:58 EDT 1998 ...