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Jan 22, 2022
Prof John Martin Earns Grant From National Science Foundation
(July 2011)
On July 1 the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that a collaboration…
Jan 22, 2022
Prof John Martin’s Article in June 2011 issue of Gemini Focus magazine
(June 2011)
The June 2011 issue of Gemini Focus magazine contains an article…
Jan 21, 2022
Supernova 2013df in NGC 4414
The spiral galaxy to the left of center in this picture is NGC 4414.  It is about 62 million lightyears away from Earth in the…
Jan 21, 2022
The Wild Duck Cluster (M11)
This open star cluster in the Milky Way is well known to amateur astronomers as a particularly rich and colorful cluster.…
Jan 21, 2022
The Eagle Nebula (M16)
The cloudy weather lately has been bad news for Friday Night Star Parties but it has given us some time to reduce a back-log of…
Jan 21, 2022
Supernova Impostors
The UIS Barber Observatory has taken advantage of the clear weather patterns and our new wide-field U42 camera to follow the brightness…