Getting ready to shelve the white accessories for the season

In 1610, Galileo's telescope revealed that the milky smear across the night sky is not a nebula but a field of tiny stars. Immanuel Kent guessed that the stars form a rotating disk and that the Earth is inside it.

It's dark at 7pm now

I saw neither meteors nor auroras from my yard. I'd like to speak with the manager.

A dense ball of 10.5 million stars, Omega Centauri is the biggest and brightest of about 200 globular clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. The average distance between its stars is just one tenth of a light year.

Amazing how much better the garden looks when it rains