It appears there's a new nova - or guest star - in the southern constellation of Centaurus. The nova could be visible with your eyes alone from a dark-sky site.
A team of astronomers discovered that some of the distant Kuiper belt objects have warped orbits. The best explanation they found for this is a Planet Y.
The constellation Cepheus the King is visible from the Northern Hemisphere every night of the year due to its close location to Polaris, the North Star.
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