Explore the heavens with today's tools like the Hubble and other space-orbiting telescopes.
In a nearby galaxy, known as the Small Magellanic Cloud, we can see the remnants of a supernova - a star which has exploded. It makes for spectacular ...
Super Moons are awesome, but April's Super Pink Moon is spectacular!
The Trifid Nebula (also known as M20 and NGC 6514) is a favorite of amateur astronomers. Its name means "divided into three lobes."
On the 30th of June, 1908, a meteorite impacted the Tunguska area in Siberia.
On September 24, 2015, NASA reveals new images of Veil Nebula, a stunning remnant of a massive star which exploded about 8,000 years ago. New images d...
What is the Milky Way? Our solar system, including the Earth, is part of a larger galaxy called the Milky Way.
This nineteenth-century illustration depicts William Parsons’ 3-foot telescope which the astronomer, also known as Lord Rosse, had constructed i...
William Parsons, an avid astronomer, owned the world's largest telescope of the 19th century. Measuring 72-inches, the huge telescope was known as the...
This image of a comet appears in a 1902 work edited by Edward Singleton (E.S.) Holden entitled Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky. It is Volume XI of the Y...
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