Sagittarius
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"Decades carefully tracking stars orbiting our galaxy's central black hole, Sagittarius A*, have led to this breakthrough discovery," Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
A Gemini sun is known as restless and analytical, a Sagittarius moon brings an optimistic outlook and a rising Leo delivers confidence and charisma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
The supermassive black hole astronomers recently found is a billion times more massive than the Sun and a hundred times more massive than Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
From Space Scoop ● Mar. 27, 2025
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
Shapley discovered that the globular clusters were not centered around the solar neighborhood but rather about a distant region of the Milky Way, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, the Archer.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
To them and to the whole world—excepting Jellybrand's and you—we are the Sagittariuses of Sagittarius Lodge, people at ease, sir, living upon our competence beside the Mouse.
From The Prophet of Berkeley Square by Robert Smythe Hichens
Lady Enid pretended not to hear and tried to hasten with the astronomer towards the Sagittariuses.
From The Prophet of Berkeley Square by Robert Smythe Hichens
Comet 266P/Christensen will pass the Chi Sagittarii star group again on 25 January 2017, while 335P/Gibbs will make its passage on 7 January 2018.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2016
Paris found that they were both in the vicinity of Chi Sagittarii on the day that the ‘Wow!’ signal was detected.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2016
While pointing towards a grouping of stars called Chi Sagittarii on 15 August, he received a powerful blast of radio waves that lasted for 72 seconds.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2016
The frozen little world will be passing very close to the faint naked-eye star Pi Sagittarii, to the left of Omicron Sagittarii, in the constellation Sagittarius, which will make for a convenient guidepost.
From National Geographic
It is to be found near a line drawn from 8 M. to the star μ Sagittarii, and about one third of the way from the cluster to the star.
From Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments by Garrett Putman Serviss
