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10 Interesting Facts about Blue Giant Stars

Since there is no clear definition of blue giant stars, the term is frequently applied to any hot, massive star, albeit erroneously in some cases. For the most part, though, blue giant stars fall into [...]
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10 Top Astronomers from the Ancient World

From the western historical perspective, it is sometimes easy to focus on the astronomical works of early Greek astronomers too tightly, while overlooking the worthy contributions made by earlier philosophers from other cultures that have [...]
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The Spookiest Nebulae in the Universe

Nebulae are among the most beautiful, complex, and least understood objects in the entire Universe, with how we perceive them often depending upon our skill in manipulating photographic images, rather than our observation skills. Once [...]
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10 Interesting Facts about Titan

Titan is Saturn’s biggest moon and a fully 50% bigger and 80% more massive than our own Moon, making it the second-biggest natural satellite in the entire solar system after Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter. [...]
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10 Interesting Facts about Red Dwarf Stars

Unlike most other classes of stars that have clear and unambiguous classification standards, red dwarf stars fall into a wide variety of masses, luminosities, and spectra that have thus far eluded proper stellar classification. In [...]
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10 Biggest Meteor Showers of the Year – Dates & Viewing Times

Meteors are constantly entering and burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, providing stargazers with some of the most awe-inspiring celestial events of the year. There are currently more than 900 known annual meteor showers, of which [...]
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10 Interesting Facts About Our Sun

In many ancient cultures, the sun was seen as a symbol of divine power and revered as a deity. We now know that the Sun is just another star like the ones seen in the [...]
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10 Interesting Facts about Io

Of Jupiter’s Galilean moons, Io is the closest to the planet at an average distance of 422,000 km (262,219 miles), and is the moon with the highest density. It is also the solar system object [...]
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5 Bizarre Paradoxes Of Time Travel Explained

There is nothing in Einstein’s theories of relativity to rule out time travel, although the very notion of traveling to the past violates one of the most fundamental premises of physics, that of causality. With [...]
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Interesting Facts About Ursa Major

In Latin, “ursus” means bear, while in Greek the word is “arktos”, hence the name Arctic (“bearish”) which describes the far northern region of the Earth where the constellation of Ursa Major (“greater she-bear”) dominates. [...]

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