Enjoy these 205 incredible astronomy facts…from the event horizons of black holes where known science breaks down, to the methane mystery of Mars. The sheer weirdness of neutron stars, to the unbelievable power of a gamma ray burst. How fast … Read more →
The Largest… …Galaxy is the colossal IC 1101 that lives at the heart of the galaxy cluster Abell 2029. The Milky Way is 100,000 light years across, pretty big you might think. Well yes it surely is, and with around 400 … Read more →
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Take a look at this lump of apparantly ordinary looking rock, it doesn’t seem anything spectacular. But this thing has been floating around our solar system for a hell of a long time, 4.65 billion years in fact. This is the … Read more →
The Hubble Telescope, possibly the most important scientific instrument ever built. Just hearing the word Hubble conjures up images of the universe, majestic spiral galaxies, vast pillars of gas and dust, nebulae, and planets in exquisite detail. The $1.5 billion … Read more →
The Messier Catalogue is a list of 110 objects in the night sky that looked “fuzzy” to Charles messier, a French astronomer in the 18th century. These were the star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae. He compiled the first 103, … Read more →