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This Week's Amazing Sky
Welcome to our night sky exploration. Let's have fun! I know you've already spotted the Evening Star after sunset.
It generates more UFO reports than any other object. It's simply the brightest thing in the sky, after the Moon. It's Venus, the closest planet to us.
Right now, Venus is about as high up as it can get. As evening twilight deepens, it's more than a third of…
The Whirlpool Galaxy, or M51, is a massive spiral type galaxy that is positioned beautifully face-on near The Big Dipper in the constellation Canes Venatici.
It is about 24 million light years away and part of a cluster of gravitationally bound galaxies called … wait for it … the M51 group.
Messier 51 was discovered on October 13, 1773 by Charles Messier. Charles was a famous comet…
