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Any clear night this month is the perfect time to pull out those binoculars or your telescope to observe the Orion Nebula. The nebula is, to the naked eye, the middle star in the “Sword” of Orion.

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The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.

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