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Don’t Miss These 7 Spectacular Sights Of The Summer Sky

“The summer skies are there every years to offer us a respite from the hardship of our daily lives, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, they remain one of the few sights that almost all of us still have some opportunity to take in. On a clear night, overhead, an enormous but brilliant collections of stars known as the Summer Triangle dominates the skies this month. If you head outside and attempt to view any of the transient sights out there — the Moon, Comet NEOWISE, the planets, the meteor shower, etc. — take some time and enjoy these deep-sky objects, too.

The night sky is always out there for anyone curious to explore it. Even with the ever-increasing number of satellites and the (sometimes severe) light-pollution that we all must reckon with, these natural wonders are just as intrinsically spectacular as they’ve ever been. Turn your telescope or binoculars up at any or all of these seven objects, and you’ll be looking years, centuries, or even millennia back in time, from giant collections of stars to a preview of our own Sun’s death. The Universe, when you see it for yourself, never disappoints.”

Have you been going out to see the Moon at night? How about Comet NEOWISE? Maybe Jupiter and Saturn? Or perhaps you’re planning on viewing next week’s Perseid meteor shower? While you’re out there, take a glance towards the heavens and notice that giant “triangle” overhead. Inside it, there are seven spectacular sights that any telescope or pair of binoculars can reveal to you.

Even if you have no experience with telescopes at all, these seven objects are well within your reach. Here’s how to view them for yourself.

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Mayall’s Object (ARP 174)

While Galaxies can come in all shapes and sizes, with a preference to Spiral and Elliptical, few come as interesting as ARP 174. 

The designation ARP is the surname of Halton Arp, an American astronomer who in 1966 published The Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, of which Mayall’s Object was the 174th in his catalogue. 

Originally thought to be a galaxy reacting with a normally visible line of Hydrogen in Intergalactic space, it’s now considered to be two distinct galaxies in the throws of merger. As the elongated object made contact, the ring like structure of the other was formed by a shockwave of the event. 

At 450 Million light years from Earth, we are seeing what happened almost half a billion years ago, and not what is there right now.

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