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April 19, 2022
Celebrating Hubble's 32nd Birthday with an Eclectic Galaxy Grouping
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April 13, 2022
Hubble Sheds Light on Origins of Supermassive Black Holes
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April 12, 2022
Hubble Confirms Largest Comet Nucleus Ever Seen
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EVENTS

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3 May 2022
Discovery Seminar Series

This Discovery Seminar features talks by Ayan Acharyya on the Metallicity of the Circumgalactic Medium and Marjorie Decleir on Interstellar Dust Properties in the Milky Way.

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3 May 2022
Eta Carinae and the Homunculus Nebula in 3D

Speaker: Frank Summers (Space Telescope Science Institute) Eta Carinae is the closest, best known, and most studied of the stars known as "supernova impostors". After...

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4 May 2022
Mapping Orbits and Mass in the Milky Way

Speaker: Adrian Price-Whelan (Flatiron Institute)

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Bug Nebula
Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
Small Magellanic Cloud
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Supernova Remnant 0509-67.5
Horsehead Nebula (Infrared)
Heart of the Tarantula Nebula
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