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A group of children take a look at the restored Admiralty Head Lighthouse Thursday, April 7, 2022, near Coupeville, Washington. (Ryan Berry / The Herald)

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Illuminating the histories of local lighthouses

They’ll leave the light on for you.

The Hubble’s 30th anniversary image “Cosmic Reef” shows a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, 163,000 light-years away. The image is nicknamed the “Cosmic Reef” because the nebulas resemble an undersea world. NASA photo.

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Whidbey talk features man who’s seen the dawn of the galaxies

Astronomer Bob Williams will discuss Hubble Space Telescope in this year’s Sundberg Lecture