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| | Stardust sheds light on 1st stars | | | Astronomers observed a young galaxy, existing when the universe was only 4% of its current age. It had a mass of interstellar dust, formed during explosions of an earlier generation of stars. | | | | | | Beehive: 1,000 stars in Cancer | | | On a dark night, look for it as a smudge of light, with three times the moon's diameter. It's really a wondrous cluster of stars called the Beehive, or M44. | | | | Cancer? Here's your constellation | | | Here's how to find the constellation Cancer in your sky, after the moon has moved away. Plus Cancer's place in sky history, lore and science. | | | | | |
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|  | | | Rat-shaped cloud, with virga | | Peter Lowenstein wrote: "What was interesting ... was the development of a small upside-down cumulus on the underside of the cloud head from which delicate curtains of virga could be seen descending." Click in to see the rat shape of the entire cloud. | | | | | |
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 | | | Moon and constellation Cancer | | The bright moon will drown faint Cancer from view. But notice the stars near tonight's moon, and you can find Cancer later, when the moon has moved away. | | | | |
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