The italicized information is A. an article title. It is a title of the article that these two people, Karen and Michel wrote, and which can be found in the magazine called Astronomy Journal. It's not a quote or the name of a chapter in a book, because this is a journal, not a book. It is just the name of something these two people wrote for a magazine.
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