New View of Milky Way’s Center, showing a region more than 600 light-years across, revealing unprecedented details

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Use Orion’s Belt To Find Other Stars - Orion’s Belt points in one direction to Aldebaran and in the other direction to Sirius

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This week – March 12, 2019 – an international group of astronomers is celebrating humanity’s discovery of the 4,001st exoplanet, or planet orbiting a distant star. "Today is a celebration day as we are now over 4,000 planets validated in our database, and this number will grow very quickly"

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How did humans first reach America? | EarthSky.org

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The moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination.

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All you need to know: Geminid meteor shower in 2018

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Pleiades ascending

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Perseid meteor shower: All you need to know

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Friday the 13th supermoon solar eclipse

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Vesturhorn reflection

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Lightning sprites over Oklahoma

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Scientists discover a new type of magnetic event

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