The Pleiades (the Seven Sisters) has always been one of my favorite night sky objects.

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They include accounts of strange lights in the sky and unexplained objects being spotted by the public, armed forces and police officers.

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At first you wonder why, and then it is explained that the telescope must swivel as it tracks objects on the sky, and that means the instrument has also to rotate if it wants to keep a lock on those same galaxies.

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"It's remarkable how much your attention is drawn when two very bright objects come together in the sky, " he explains.

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The image was discovered by the Wide-Field Infared Survey Explorer (WISE), which scans the night sky for lights in the infrared range to discover more about different aspects of astronomical objects.

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In the next, he would reject traditional artists' tools in favor of found objects, black tar paper (textured and pebbly and quite iridescent, giving the impression of a midnight sky) or sentimental postcards, eliminating, in a sense, all traces of technique and skill--and even of the artist (some of the "objects" were assembled by carpenters).

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