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Tonight’s Sky: November 2010 Highlights

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Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere’s skywatching events with “Tonight’s Sky.” In November, the Leonid meteors light the night. The Andromeda Galaxy displays its arms and bright nucleus. And Saturn and Venus return to the eastern horizon. “Tonight’s Sky” is produced by HubbleSite.org, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a recurring show, and you can find more episodes — and other astronomy videos — at HubbleSite.org.

Visit Tonight’s Sky on HubbleSite.
http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/tonights_sky/

Seeing the Future in the Stars – HubbleSite.org

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Astronomers use Hubble images of the giant star cluster Omega Centauri to predict where the stars will be in a decade or more. The cluster’s 10 million stars, among the first stars to form in the universe, are in constant motion. Studying their movements helps scientists to understand the formation of the universe.

This video is from HubbleSite, the online home of the Hubble Space Telescope. Learn more about this topic.

See the news release.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/28/

See images of star cluster Omega Centauri.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/28/image/
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2001/33/image/a/

Get Omega Centauri wallpaper.
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/wallpaper/pr2009025q/

Print an Omega Centauri picture.
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/printshop/ps48/