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"What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?"
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"A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars."
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A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have been categorised into constellations and asterisms, and many of the brightest stars have proper names. Astronomers have assembl
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