News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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March is a good month to try to identify Cancer the crab, the zodiac's dimmest constellation. It helps an observer to know that Cancer is bordered by two brighter constellations, Gemini to the west and Leo to the east. Situated about halfway between the stars Pollux in Gemini and Regulus in Leo is a dim, fuzzy object that is just visible to the naked eye in dark skies. This body, called Praesepe, was discovered to be a star cluster when Galileo viewed it with his telescope in... Full story
