About Me

Hello, My name is Amellia. I'm an English Literature student who failed to be an astronomy student, so I love astronomy so much. I'm into astronomy since I was in high school. But, my most favorite thing(s) in astronomy is stars, so in the future I will mostly post about stars in this blog. That's why this blog name is 'Twinkling Skies', I'd love to watch the stars twinkling beautifully in the night skies.

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