Why astronomers keep staring at the same spot in the sky

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Why astronomers keep staring at the same spot in the sky
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Briley Lewis (she/her) is a freelance science writer and Ph.D. Candidate/NSF Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles studying Astronomy & Astrophysics. Follow her on Twitter @briles_34 or visit her website www.briley-lewis.com.

ArticleBody:The universe is huge, yet astronomers have looked at a few parts of the night sky over and over again. For example, many telescopes—from the Hubble Space Telescope to JWST and beyond—have looked at the Magellanic Clouds, two mini-galaxies in our celestial neighborhood right around the Milky Way.

Credit: Axel Mellinger, Central Michigan Univ. via NASA Because astronomers can’t make a star in a laboratory and perform neatly controlled experiments, they instead have to look at things in space from as many perspectives as they can. Imagine you need to understand what a sculpture is made of and how it was carved, but you can’t touch it and you can only look at it from across the room—you’ll have to get creative with how you learn about it, taking photos from different angles.

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