Guide to Space
What is the Largest Galaxy?
[/caption] Galaxies can range in size from having just a few million stars to well over a trillion stars. But…
Ring Galaxy
[/caption] There are spiral galaxies and elliptical galaxies, but one of the strangest you're ever going to see is a…
Comet Galaxy
[/caption] The "Comet Galaxy" is actually just one galaxy located in a distant galaxy cluster known as Abell 2667, located…
Virgo Supercluster
[/caption] It's time to expand your mind and consider the largest structures in the Universe: vast collections of galaxies known…
Virgo Cluster
[/caption] The key force in astronomy is gravitational attraction. Planets orbit stars, and stars are part of galaxies. But even…
Dwarf Galaxies
[/caption] Our own Milky Way is an example of a grand spiral; a vast collection of 200 to 400 billion…
Blazars
There's a list out there somewhere of the most extreme things in the Universe. Blazars must certainly be on that…
Superclusters
Everything in the Universe seems to be part of something bigger. Our Earth is part of the Solar System, the…
What is the Large Magellanic Cloud?
Astronomers in the southern hemisphere are lucky enough to have a clear view of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.…
What is the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)?
[/caption] If you live near the equator or in the Earth's southern hemisphere and you watch the skies at night,…