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
West
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Einstein would have been thrilled if he'd lived to see this photo, a cluster of galaxies seemingly grouped in an arc, an illusion caused by the gravitational field of the cluster.It's so massive and compact that light rays passing through it are deflected by its enormous gravitational field, (like a lens bends light to form an image). The process magnifies, brightens and distorts images of objects that lie far beyond the cluster. This provides a powerful "zoom lens" for viewing galaxies that are so far away they could not normally be observed with the largest telescopes.
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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
Navigate Our Galaxy
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