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... This past spring, as Comet Hyakutake decorated our evening skies, I received a telephone call from an upset parent. We bought our daughter a telescope to see the comet," she said, "and we can't see anything!" The exasperated mother said they found binocular and naked-eye views to be better than those through the telescope. ... They may be bright overall, but all that light is coming from a big area of space. ... OK, you say, I found Comet Hale-Bopp this evening. ... Does the comet have a tail? ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . In the Center of Spiral Galaxy M83 . ... 5.11.2001 . ... HST , ESA , NASA Explanation: What's happening at the center of spiral galaxy M83? ... M83 , visible in the inset image on the upper left, is one of the closest spiral galaxies to our own Milky Way Galaxy and from a distance of 15 million light-years , appears to be relatively normal. ... November 2001 . ... 2001 2002 . ... Publications with keywords: spiral galaxy - M 83 . ... NGC 2683: Edge On Spiral Galaxy . ...

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... 2001 November 6 . In the Center of Spiral Galaxy M83 . ... HST , ESA , NASA . Explanation: What's happening at the center of spiral galaxy M83? ... M83 , visible in the inset image on the upper left, is one of the closest spiral galaxies to our own Milky Way Galaxy and from a distance of 15 million light-years , appears to be relatively normal. ... Visible in the above image from the Hubble Space Telescope are bright, newly formed stars and giant lanes of dark dust . ... About APOD | ...

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... Click here to go directly to the Orion Nebula Images. ... Copies of individual figures from this paper are available from John Bally . ... Figure 1: The core of the Trapezium showing the four energetic massive stars and a plethora of Sun-like stars with surrounding extended emission. ... Click to download figure in jpeg format. Click to download figure in tiff format. ... Figure 3: A gallery of star-disk systems in Orion's Trapezium. ... To Doug Johnstone's Scientific Home P