
How Stars Are Named: Why This Menagerie of Names & Catalog Numbers For Extrasolar Planets?
How Stars Are Named Let’s start with how stars are named. Most of the brightest stars have proper names that date back centuries to…
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How Stars Are Named Let’s start with how stars are named. Most of the brightest stars have proper names that date back centuries to…

Eagle Nebula The Eagle Nebula is about 6500 light years (lys) away in the constellation Serpens. Its ‘wings’ span 20 light years. The…

What is a Black Hole? A black hole is an object so dense that not even light can escape from its gravitational field. They originate from…

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Each of the Apollo Moon missions excited the world. Man not only was traveling to our satellite, but was walking on its surface. Some of…

Just How Much Do You Know About Neptune? Opps, Quiz engine needs updating… References deVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology, 1976…

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Mars’s True Colors This image from Opportunity is as close as the researchers can get to the true colors on the Red Planet. It is a…

Some Basics on the International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is a joint endeavor of the United States’ National…

Father Sun - Parent to the Solar System Our Sun is a gigantic ball of hot gas, more massive than all of the mountains of Earth. In fact…