You look up, and it’s quiet. Deceptively quiet. The night sky feels like a painting that dried billions of years…
Browsing: Galactic & Extragalactic Objects
Explore the universe with our guide to Galactic & Extragalactic Objects. Learn the difference between stars in the Milky Way and distant galaxies.
Stand in the middle of a desert, or anywhere far from the light pollution of a city, and look up.…
You could take every star in the Milky Way—all 100 billion of them—and bundle them together, and a single quasar…
Space looks quiet. It isn’t. When you stare up at the night sky, you see a peaceful canvas of twinkling…
You remember your first time. I certainly remember mine. It wasn’t at some fancy observatory with a telescope the size…
I still remember the first night I actually found the Hercules Cluster. I wasn’t using a fancy computerized telescope that…