To see the Universe in all its glory, astronomers combine multiple photos taken by different telescopes to make one colorful picture.
Aug 17th: Telescopes That Tell Different Tales
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Aug 10th: Orion Nebula: Mother of the Year
M42 or Orion nebula, the factory of stars
Aug 4th: Sloshing Around in Space Like a Soda!
Story about galaxy cluster Abell 2052.
Jul 28th: Searching for Star-making Materials in Our Dusty Old Universe
The dead star has helped to create new stars, planets and maybe life forms!
Jul 20th: Is it a Star, is it a Planet? No! It’s a Brown Dwarf!
A story of a failed star!
Jul 13th: Asteroid Day: Look Out for Rocks Falling From the Sky!
On June 30th, 1908 a fireball was seen streaking across in a remote area of Siberia in Russia. And we celebrate it as asteroid day!
Jul 6th: Throwing Rocks in Space
When the Solar System was formed, there were lots of spare pieces left over. These spare pieces are called asteroids and comets.
Jun 22nd: Only the Biggest Survive
Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is surrounded by 152 groups of stars, which are called globular clusters. They appear to be the oldest things in the galaxy, the first thing to form, and hold valuable clues about how the first stars and galaxies formed.