In astronomy perspective may play weird jokes
In everyday life, we are generally able to recognise the depth of the scene we observe and determine which object…
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ASTERISMS AND CONSTELLATIONS
An asterism is any group of stars that can be recognized by the rest of the sky because of its…
PROXIMA CENTAURI, THE SUN’S NEIGHBOUR
In the direction of the constellation of the Centaur is a star which, with a magnitude of -0.3, is the…
Flowers of stellar wind
The ongoing large-scale ATOMIUM project is being conducted in collaboration with ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, which is located…
Hubble photographed DART smashing into asteroid
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of rapid changes to the asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately…
Distorted spiral galaxy
The galaxy Arp 78 . It lies about 100 million light years from the Milky Way in the constellation Aries,…
KOCHAB, THE POLE GUARD
With an apparent magnitude of 2.08, Kochab is the second brightest star in the Ursa Minor, the constellation in which…
THE NEBULA ROTTEN EGG
What does that protoplanetary nebula have in common with those rotten eggs? The smell. This nebula contains an enormous amount…
#APOD: Our Increasingly Active Sun
Our Sun is becoming a busy place. Only two years ago, the Sun was emerging from a solar minimum so…
CYGNUS LOOP NEBULA
Clusters of incandescent dust and gas light up intensely in this ultraviolet image of the Cygnus Loop Nebula, taken from…