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M68 - The Poster Child Cluster - Deep Sky Videos

November 5th, 2019

Messier 68 is the globular cluster chosen by Harlow Shapley to develop his techniques for measuring the distance to globular clusters. From this research he determined the Milky Way is much larger than anyone suspected, that our sun is nowhere near the center and that globular clusters from a spherical halo around the center.

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M106 - Mega Maser Quasar - Deep Sky Videos

October 7th, 2019

The spiral galaxy Messier 106 has an actively accreting black hole at is core putting it in a class known as Seyfert galaxies. This galaxy is also generating a beam of microwaves toward Earth that enables Astonomers to measure the galaxy's distance very accurately.

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M103 - Tracking a Red Giant - Deep Sky Videos

August 19th, 2019

As an open cluster Messier 103 is one of the messier Messier objects, though not as messy as it appears because it lies near the plan of the Milky amongst a multitude of other stars. It contains one red giant star which looks out of place in the cluster. Dr. Merrifield explains how astronomers determined it is a member of the cluster and not a background object.

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M52 - A Cluster of Variable Stars - Deep Sky Videos

July 12th, 2019

Messier 52 is an open cluster full of variable stars. That gives Dr. Gray the opportunity for a history lesson on the era of variable star astronomy.

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M75 - Sausage Globular Clusters - Deep Sky Videos

May 30th, 2019

Dr. Smethurst explains how astronomers use globular clusters to identify galaxies that the Milky Way absorbed in the past.

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M102 - A Tale of Mistakes - Deep Sky Videos

May 3rd, 2019

Charles Messier badly cataloged the galaxy he labeled 102 but more recent sleuth work finds it is probably the dramatic edge on galaxy NGC-5866.

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Supernova in M95 (NEWS) - Deep Sky Videos

March 19th, 2019

Brady calls on his colleagues to explain why astronomers are excited about an apparent supernova in nearby spiral galaxy messier 95.

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M109 - Barred Spiral Galaxies - Deep Sky Videos

February 18th, 2019

Dr. Becky discusses the evolution of galaxies leading up to the formation of ansae at the ends of spiral galaxy bars.

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M70 - Gravothermal Catastrophe - Deep Sky Videos

February 3rd, 2019

Messier 70 is a globular cluster that appears to be undergoing a gravothermal catastrophe. That is it caught in a feedback loop where it is growing hotter causing it to contract generating more heat.

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