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What was the Star of Bethlehem
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 by Richard Hammar
As we consider the Star of Bethlehem one of the most endearing and yet mysterious aspects of the Christmas story. I say mysterious because it is only mentioned in one of the four New Testament Gospels, the Gospel of Matthew, and even there, it occupies a mere 8 verses, providing tantalizingly few cl...
Astronomy in November 2025
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 by Richard Harris
This month offers a bit of everything: a once-in-a-lifetime interstellar visitor passing through, a brilliant supermoon lighting up the sky, two bright comets fading out after their October glory, planets dancing in interesting ways, and even a couple of meteor showers ...
Complex planetary nebula traced by Webb
Saturday, August 9, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Since their discovery in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that planetary nebulae, or the expanding shell of glowing gas expelled by a low-intermediate mass star late in its life, can come in all shapes and sizes. Most planetary nebula present as circular, elliptical, or bi-polar, but some st...
Star eating black hole spotted by Hubble and Chandra
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have collaborated to identify a potential example of an elusive category of black holes. Known as NGC 6099 HLX-1, this luminous X-ray source appears to be located within a compact star cluster on the outskirts of a massive ellipti...