Season’s Greetings, Everyone! I hope that, so far, you’ve all had a wonderful holiday season, filled with joy, relaxation, and maybe even some clear skies for stargazing! 

In our galaxy, an estimated 40% of stars are members of binary systems, which are often embedded within a circumbinary dust disks.

Astronomers have taken the first close-up picture of a star outside of the milky way. WOH G64, also known as the “behemoth star” has been imaged using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT).

Correcting narrowband stars that have a shade of magenta.