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Oral History Interview With Leo Castelli, 1969 July Archives Of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Archives Of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Two other Messier objects in Leo that can be viewed with modest telescopes are M95 and M96. These are spiral galaxies which each lie around 20 million light-years away. They are not incredibly nicely resolved in tiny instruments, displaying up as fuzzy patches in the sky. Dionisia goes to check on Nando, jokingly saying that she’s going to consume him for supper rather. To further achieve the boys trust, Santos shows him his “fireworks”, things he received from China. Later, at Panadería San Juan, Leo is excited to tell his Nana of what he had just saw, calling the fireworks...