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ASTRONOMY
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A slow walk through the sky, one star at a time.
Observable Universe
Diameter: ~93 billion light-years | Age: ~13.8 billion years
Milky Way Galaxy
Our home galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars | Diameter: ~100,000 light-years
Solar System
8 planets orbiting our Sun | Earth: The Pale Blue Dot
RESOURCES
NASA
Space exploration and astronomical research. Visit →
ESO (European Southern Observatory)
Ground-based astronomy in the Southern Hemisphere. Visit →
Stellarium
Free open source planetarium software. Visit →
PHENOMENA
Black Holes
Regions of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape.
Neutron Stars
Collapsed cores of massive stars, incredibly dense cosmic objects.
Exoplanets
Planets orbiting stars beyond our Solar System. Over 5,000 discovered so far.
GALLERY
Photos from Wikimedia Commons with open licenses and full attribution.
