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21 things you never knew about astronomy and space. Credit: thinkstock x 3, ESO/L.Calçada, esa/c.carreau, ESO/M. Kornmesser

20 amazing facts about space and astronomy

A supermoon rising behind a mountain. Credit: Mimi Ditchie Photography / Getty Images

What is a supermoon and when is the next one visible?

Earth vs Sun. Credit: Getty Images

How many Earths can fit in the Sun?

A small portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is pictured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Nota, G. De Marchi

If the Universe is infinite, has it always been infinite?

An illustration of the Big Bang. Credit: Flavio Coelho / Getty Images

Quasi Steady-State theory: the Big Bang alternative explained

Artist’s impression shows how ULAS J1120+0641, a quasar powered by a black hole with a mass 2 billion times that of the Sun, may have looked. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

A guide to quasars, the powerful black hole objects

Artist's impression showing the brilliance of two quasars embedded deep with two colliding galaxies, 10 billion years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)

Astronomers spot black hole quasars colliding in the early Universe

What's it like seeing the Northern Lights for the first time? Credit: Arctic Images / Getty Images

What it’s like seeing the aurora for the first time

A composite image showing multiple Perseid meteors over Big Bend National park, 14 August 2016. Credit: Jason Weingart / Barcroft Media via Getty Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images

What causes a meteor shower?

Hubble Space Telescope's infrared view of galaxy M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Regan and B. Whitmore (STScI) and R. Chandar (University of Toledo, USA)

How astronomers use the electromagnetic spectrum to explore the Universe

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What would happen if Earth stopped rotating?

A composite image showing the Saturn Lyman-alpha bulge, an emission from excess hydrogen in. Credit: NASA, ESA, Lotfi Ben-Jaffel (IAP & LPL)

Saturn’s icy ring particles are raining down and heating the planet’s atmosphere

Sag A* black hole EVENT HORIZON TELESCOPE, 12 MAY 2022 IMAGE CREDIT: EHT Collaboration

How do astronomers study black holes?

Edwin Hubble (1889 - 1953) was an astronomer who confirmed that other galaxies exist outside of the Milky Way. Photo by New York Times Co./Getty Images

Edwin Hubble, the astronomer who discovered there are galaxies beyond the Milky Way

An artist’s impression of our Milky Way galaxy in its youth. Credit: James Josephides, Swinburne University of Technology.

‘Sparkler’ galaxy hints at how the young Milky Way may have looked