Auteur/autrice : marco

A mere 280 light-years from Earth, tidally locked, Jupiter-sized exoplanet WASP-43b orbits its parent star once every 0.8 Earth days.

Majestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a grand design spiral galaxy. The large galaxy of

To some, this nebula looks like the head of a fish. However, this colorful cosmic portrait really features glowing gas

The star system GK Per is known to be associated with only two of the three nebulas pictured. At 1500

Three bright objects satisfied seasoned stargazers of the western sky just after sunset earlier this month. The most familiar was

The Ring Nebula (M57) is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is

If the Sun is up but the sky is dark and the horizon is bright all around, you might be

In northern hemisphere spring, bright star Regulus is easy to spot above the eastern horizon. The alpha star of the

Located some 3 million light-years away in the arms of nearby spiral galaxy M33, giant stellar nursery NGC 604 is

How did a star form this beautiful nebula? In the middle of emission nebula NGC 6164 is an unusually massive