KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 (Bernama) — China Ningxia is an unique place where has brilliant weather conditions to see the twinkling stars. Therefore, it also owns the name “ the hometown of the stars”. No matter at The Helan Mountains, Shapotou desert, The Great Wall or even in the Great Yellow River Valley, you will get the best places to see the starry sky. The whole sky is filled with thousands of twinkling stars as night comes. There, you can have an intimate touch with the stars.
The Helan Mountains, highly covered with forest located at a latitude of 38° N, is the good place to watch Altair Star and Vega Star. Altair Star can be seen clearly from afar while Vega Star looks so bright. The position of these two stars are opposite each other in the Milky Way, seeming to be the Tanabata legend as known many hundreds of years ago, and now still shining brightly in the galaxy.