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More information regarding the failure of the advanced camera for surveys and the Hubble service mission #4, scheduled in September, 2008, is available.

Visit Comet McNaught in Chile, to view some pictures of the comet. Just click the links on the right and sit back and view these spectacular pictures! Compliments of Robert Allen of the La Crosse Area Astronimical Society.

Read more fascinating facts about the Rosette Nebula in Monoceros.

This is from the UMN Starwatch Column: "Late in February, star watchers lucky enough to enjoy dark skies may see the zodiacal light, a faint oval glow along the sun's path an hour or two after sunset. A waxing moon will interfere during the last week of the month, so look for it by the 18th. But you have until the 23rd to see the Gegenschein, or counterglow, unhindered by moonlight. The Gegenschein appears around midnight as a faint spot of light high in the southern sky, directly opposite the sun's position on the far side of the globe. Both the zodiacal light and the Gegenschein are caused by reflection of sunlight on meteoric dust in the plane of the solar system, stretching far beyond Earth."