NEAR EARTH
The Moon
Hubble Telescope
Meteors
THE SOLAR SYSTEM
The Sun
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Deimos
Phobos
Jupiter
Europa
Io
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
ASTEROIDS:
Eros
Gaspra
Vestra
COMETS:
Hale-Bopp
Halley
Hyakutake
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This image represents our best guess at what the black hole Cygnus X-1 looks like. It is a binary (pair of stars) in which one star has exploded as a supernova, leaving behind a super-compressed black hole. This hole is sucking matter from the other still-burning star. Cygnus X-1 was the first black hole discovered; the discovery was made in the early 1970's at the University of Toronto.
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STARS
A Star is Born
Death of a Star
Supergiants
Neutron Stars
Pulsars
A Planet Beyond
NEBULAE
A Nebula
Nebula 2366
Nebula 604
GALAXIES
Center of Our Galaxy
Dust Lanes
Andromeda (M31)
M 100
M 51
M 83
Irregular Galaxy
THE UNUSUAL
Gravitational Lens
Black Hole Galaxy
Clusters of Galaxies
Colliding Galaxies
Quasars
Supernova Remnant
Black Hole
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