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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Moon & Spica

Giant blue Spica is 11 times more massive than the Sun and 13,000 times brighter. One day, it might go supernova, but not tonight. Tonight it's just having a harmless close encounter with the Moon. Look for the pair in the southwestern sky after sunset:

Sky Map

--from spaceweather.com

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

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