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Stars are giant, luminous spheres of plasma. Galaxies consist of stars, stellar remnants, dust, gas, and dark matter, bound together by gravity. Learn more about stars and galaxies.
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Skywatcher P-M Heden of The World at Night snapped this beautiful image of a family stargazing in September 2012.
This space wallpaper shows a deep-field image of what is known as a supercluster of galaxies — a giant group of galaxy clusters which are themselves clustered together.
This artist’s impression shows the material ejected from the region around the supermassive black hole in the quasar SDSS J1106+1939 in this cool space wallpaper.
White dwarfs have magnetic fields many thousands of times stronger than any on Earth.
This cool space wallpaper from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows the bright star cluster NGC 6520 and its neighbor, the strangely shaped dark cloud Barnard 86.
This space wallpaper shows an artist’s impression of the disc of gas and cosmic dust around the young star HD 142527.
The blinking star Algol is actually a pair of eclipsing stars.
The warped leftovers of an exploded star could be hiding what is possibly the youngest black hole in our galaxy.
Giant black holes are famous for their appetites, but these matter-munching monsters are even greedier than scientists had thought.
Hypervelocity stars similar to our sun could shed light on star formation in the dust-shrouded center of the Milky Way.
Some stars are ticking time bombs on their way to becoming supernovas.
This gorgeous pink galaxy hides a gorging black hole.
Photographer Justin Ng (Facebook.com/justinngphoto) captured the cones of Mount Bromo, Mount Semeru and Mount Batok during sunset and into the night. Lava smoke, long exposure stars, and a passing dust storm spice the scene.
Stargazers will be able to see a clear view of the Orion and Canis Major Constellations this month, and the many bright stars they contain.
Radio waves have been found from the coolest brown dwarf source yet, a failed star in the constellation Leo.
Swirling gas around black holes provides the key.
This amazing space wallpaper shows an artist’s impression of the material around a recently exploded star, known as Supernova 1987A (or SN 1987A).
160,000 light years from Earth, the region of hurried massive star growth and supernovas called DL50 is radiating x-rays 20x faster than a typical such structure. Chandra X-Ray Observatory scientists are looking to find out why.
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