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Twinkling Star?

There are many atmospheric phenomena that produce “twinkling” behaviour in astronomical and human-made objects. From Austin Texas this time…

As the light from a star passes through the Earth’s atmosphere some of that starlight gets absorbed. The amount…

I could not find any evidence for an object named “Turner 5” in Orion. You can, though, find information…

In fact, the prevalent theory for the formation of our solar system is that a cloud of gas and…

There is a very nice description of this basic quantity of stars and how astronomers measure it in the…

Even though the stars that we see in the night sky are all very far away, we can see…

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