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"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!" -Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the sun’s neighborhood of the Milky Way Galaxy is a fairly bright star. Astronomers have successfully recognized the broadest variety of elements in this star that lies beyond the solar system for the first time.

Aladin Lite is one of the greatest online tools available to look at our universe through the eyes of many different telescopes.

The Witch Head Nebula rises near the star Rigel in Orion on Halloween night, but its too faint to see

February 24, 2021 New research suggests that the famous black hole Cygnus X-1 – first black hole ever detected and one of the closest to Earth – is farther away and much more massive than previously believed. A new study suggests that one of the closest black holes to Earth, and the first ever detected, is both farther away and more massive than we thought. The study – published February 18, 2021 in the peer-reviewed journal Science – says that Cygnus X-1 is about 7,200 light-years f...