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Since Zodiac Constellations were drawn up, they are no longer in their associated positions. For example, the Leo Constellation does not appear after the Sun sets in August. Sir Edmund Halley discovered that stars moved, and in 50,000 years, the constellations will look different as they do ...
A constellation is essentially a specific area of the celestial sphere, though the term is more often associated with a chance grouping of stars in the night sky. Technically, star groupings are known as asterisms, and the practice of locating and assigning names to them is known asasterism.T...
The Einstein Cross, aquasarin thePegasus constellation,according to the European Space Agency(ESA), and is an excellent example of gravitational lensing. The quasar is seen as it was about 11 billion years ago; thegalaxythat it sits behind is about 10 times closer to Earth. Because the two ...
How are most of you deciding what to look at when taking your telescope out? I get a bit lost in the infinite. My current approach is to randomly select an object in Stellarium that's currently visible then hope it's not near the moon and is pretty close to a constellation so I can...
Look for the Pleiades shining to the right of bright Jupiter tonight. (Image credit: Starry Night/ Jamie Carter) Look to the south after sunset tonight for one of the night sky's most beautiful sights, an open cluster of sparkling young blue stars in the constellation Taurus called the Plei...
Pollux is a star that makes up the head of the left twin in the Gemini constellation. The other head is Pollux's 'twin' star, Castor. Although they are not part of the same star system, they are fairly similar in size and brightness in the night sky. ...
Also note that Venus has been skirting the non-zodiacal constellation of Scutum this season! Created using Starry Night Education Software. Venus also reaches greatest brilliancy at magnitude -4.6 next week on February 11th. Venus is bright enough to cast a shadow onto a high contrast background...
Tell me, what does it look like in heaven? Is it peaceful? Is it free like they say? Does the sun shine bright forever? Have your fears and your pain gone away?‘Cause here on earth it feels like Everything good is missing since you left And here on earth everything’s different ...
Planetary Nebulae are created when a star comes to the end of its life. When the star collapses, it might not explode like a supernova but expand and die like theRing Nebulain the constellation ofLyra. The Ring Nebula and many others will contain a white dwarf at the centre. Ref:Univers...