The Large Magellanic Cloud is about 40,000 light-years closer than the Small Magellanic Cloud and more than 2 million light-years closer than the Andromeda galaxy. The Magellanic Clouds were visible to early peoples in the...
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The Orion Nebula, or M42, is visible from most parts of the world from November to February, which is when the constellation of Orion (pictured) is in the night sky. While most nebulae (clouds of interstellar gas and dust) are...
The Milky Way got its name from the way it looks from the ground: like a streak of spilt milk across the sky. That hazy white band is made up of stars, dust and gas. It looks like a flat stripe because we are viewing it from...
Some of the earliest astronomers in recorded history proposed that we live in a geocentric universe in which Earth lies at the center of everything. According to them, the sun rotated around us, which caused sunrises and sunsets...
China’s Chang’e 5 lander touched down on the moon and collected the first lunar samples. It’s more than 40 years since the American Apollo and Soviet Luna missions brought their samples home. The...