Why “stars” is being discussed
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Does the almanac need updating? I regularly use plate solving with my telescope and I've never had to update it's stars database
by malfist · Sep 1, 2026
It’s completely unsurprising to deal with grammar policing over substance, but… In terms of financial motives, I would reason that a motive for extending the term “planet” to co…
by odyssey7 · Sep 1, 2026
This comment is so funny to me, because I imagine you being distracted to make the comment before making it to the end where the psych did indeed review the new results. Well I…
by johnwalkr · Sep 1, 2026
that's very true for reviews of products, the classical five stars. Even with comments, they are seldom more than a data point, and stars themselves are given with very differen…
by fedeb95 · Aug 31, 2026
I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd
by rokbenko · Aug 31, 2026
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A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have been categorised into constellations and asterisms, and many of the brightest stars have proper names. Astronomers have assembled star catalogues that identify the known stars and provide standardized stellar designations. The observable universe contains an estimated 1022 to 1024 stars. Only about 4,000 of these stars are visible to the naked eye—all within the Milky Way galaxy. Read more on Wikipedia