Auteur/autrice : marco

A familiar sight from Georgia, USA, the Moon sets near the western horizon in this rural night skyscape. Captured on

What did the monster active region that created the recent auroras look like when at the Sun’s edge? There, AR

For the mostly harmless denizens of planet Earth, the brighter stars of open cluster NGC 2169 seem to form a

It was larger than the Earth. It was so big you could actually see it on the Sun’s surface without

Northern lights don’t usually reach this far south. Magnetic chaos in the Sun’s huge Active Region 3664, however, produced a

Right now, one of the largest sunspot groups in recent history is crossing the Sun. Active Region 3664 is not

Bright elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is home to the supermassive black hole captured in 2017 by planet Earth’s Event

What happens when a black hole devours a star? Many details remain unknown, but observations are providing new clues. In

What happens to a star that goes near a black hole? If the star directly impacts a massive black hole,

Despite their resemblance to R2D2, these three are not the droids you’re looking for. Instead, the enclosures house 1.8 meter