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Astrophysicist in the streets, 51 Pegasi next to... Scheat! The peak star of Pegasus -- Beta Pegasi, formally Scheat -- sits just northwest of 51 Pegasi, home to the first exoplanet found orbiting a main-sequence star. Much wonder to be found in the autumn sky. Prettig herfst!

Diffraction spikes occur when light shifts to places where it does not actually exist, most often in a sort of radial pattern; though they’re the result of an imperfection, they do create such a lovely composition… observe the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters — Remarkable.

To witness the lensing effect of a dying star -- the telltale sign of its collapse into oblivion... nothing like it. Nothing! Nothing save for the suction of its light... Free-roaming black holes, upwards of six solar masses... innumerable. An infinite amount of them.