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| Hubble sees a unique cluster: One of the hidden 15 Posted: 19 Apr 2013 07:13 AM PDT Palomar 2 is part of a group of 15 globulars known as the Palomar clusters. These clusters, as the name suggests, were discovered in survey plates from the first Palomar Observatory Sky Survey in the 1950s, a project that involved some of the most well-known astronomers of the day, including Edwin Hubble. They were discovered quite late because they are so faint -- each is either extremely remote, very heavily hidden behind blankets of dust, or has a very small number of remaining stars. |
| NASA's Hubble sees a horsehead of a different color Posted: 19 Apr 2013 06:41 AM PDT Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light. |
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