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Top 10 Free Smartphone Apps For Stargazing in 2022

Not so long ago, the only way to find out where a celestial object was in the night sky was by using a bulky star atlas, but no more. The advent of smartphones has changed [...]
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10 Interesting Heliocentric Solar System Quotes

Heliocentrism is the astronomical model which places a stationary Sun at the center of the Solar System while the Earth, planets and other bodies revolve around it. As early as the 3rd century BCE, Greek [...]
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Nebulae Named After Land Animals

Nebulae are vast regions of interstellar dust and ionized gases which form stars due to a process called gravitational accretion. This whole turbulent and complex process results in unusual and exotic gas shapes being formed, [...]
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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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10 Interesting Facts about the Missions to Jupiter

Even though the true role Jupiter played, and is still playing in how the solar system is arranged today was not known until comparatively recently, the King of the Planets has been in the human [...]
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20 Recommended Astronomy Books

There are thousands of internet resources that serve the interests of the majority of most amateur astronomers most of the time. However, some types of information can only be obtained from old-style paper books. It [...]
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Top 10 Facts About Black Holes

Of all the strange objects that exist in the Universe, black holes are without doubt the strangest. Before 1971, black holes were believed to be purely theoretical phenomena, but this perception was radically altered after [...]
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10 Interesting Facts about Red Giant Stars

While red giant stars are among the biggest stars in the Universe, they were not born that way. Red giants are for the most part normal main-sequence stars that have exhausted their supply of hydrogen, [...]
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Top 10 Night Sky Objects for Amateur Astronomers

Although there are thousands of astronomical objects worth observing in the night sky, all astronomers, both amateur and professional alike, will tell you that they have their own personal favorites. These might include lingering early [...]
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Interesting Quotes By Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the most influential physicist of the 20th century, and was born in Germany to a Jewish family, although he later became a Swiss citizen (1901) and then a U.S. citizen in [...]

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