OK, not monsters like in the movies. Black Holes. Anything that gets too close to a Black Hole is pulled to it with such strong gravity that eventually it has no chance of escape.
To see the Universe in all its glory, astronomers combine multiple photos taken by different telescopes to make one colorful picture.
M42 or Orion nebula, the factory of stars
Story about galaxy cluster Abell 2052.
The dead star has helped to create new stars, planets and maybe life forms!
A story of a failed star!
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!
When the Solar System was formed, there were lots of spare pieces left over. These spare pieces are called asteroids and comets.
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.
When stars die, the materials the star has been fusing for millions of years, all the way up to iron, are melted back down into sub-atomic particles. Then they are remade in a process called explosive nucleosynthesis. More than remade, the elements higher than iron, up to uranium are assembled in a flash.