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Top 10 Features on the Moon for Stargazers
Although some stargazers may consider the Moon to be a nuisance that spoils their night-time viewing, the truth of the matter is that the Earth’s only natural satellite has enough features to offer a lifetime ...
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Top 7 Night Sky Objects For Stargazing
What are the easiest deep sky objects to see? Here is a list of 7 night sky objects that are great for beginners, and which have delighted stargazers for centuries. On account of their size, ...
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10 Interesting Facts about Callisto
Callisto is Jupiter’s second-biggest moon, and the third-biggest moon in the solar system, after another one of Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, and then Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn. As with Jupiter’s main moons ...
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10 Beautiful Star Clusters for Stargazers
Star clusters represent distinct steps in the evolution of the Universe. On the one hand, globular clusters can be thought of as “fossils”, in the sense that in many cases they are all that remains ...
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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 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 Most Influential Optical Telescopes in Astronomy
With each successive generation of telescopes, more about the wonders and complexities of the Universe are revealed than could ever have been imagined. It is therefore natural to ask who invented the telescope? Nevertheless, the ...
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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 Free Smartphone Apps For Stargazing in 2024
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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Top 10 Facts About The Stars
Twinkle, twinkle little star…I think I know what you are! However, there remains much to be learned about stars, and how they live and die. Until such time that we know it all, here are ...

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