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Stars, galaxies, dust clouds and Uranus: take a tour of the January night sky ThuThursday 31 updated ThuThursday 31 The belt of Orion aka The Saucepan dominates the northern sky in summer. ( Print text only January is the month to go star-hopping to see how many constellations you can spot. You might also see a galaxy if youve headed bush for the holidays and the skies are clear. And, if youve packed some binoculars, a camera or a telescope, you can see stunning dust clouds, star clusters and d...

    During the past two years, two strange events have occurred at our Milky Way’s violent center. In October of 2019, Milky Way’s central black hole, SgrA* (literally “Sagittarius A-star”) which until May, 2019, when it suddenly brightened, appeared like a massive, dormant volcano, a sleeping monster, a slumbering region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that “what goes into them does not come out”. A “one-way door out of our universe,” said Event Horizon Telescope dire...