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Indeed, Jefferson deemed the African-American poet Phillis Wheatley’s work “beneath the dignity of criticism” and asserted that Black astronomer Benjamin Banneker possessed only “a mind of very common stature.”

As satellites whiz past the field of view of telescopes, they leave streaks in the astronomers’ images.

It was discovered last year by astronomers in China and South Africa as it approached the inner solar system, and after this visit, it won’t be seen again for 80,000 years, according to NASA.

While astronomers previously anticipated the Sun’s solar maximum would begin next year, the new CME causes some to believe it has already started.

Newly discovered by astronomers publishing for the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, Barnard b orbits the closest solo star to our own solar system, known as Barnard's star.