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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Welcome to The Virtual Telescope. What you will see here are, for the most part, actual photographs of the depicted objects. Many photos have had artificial colours added to make their features more apparent. Descriptions of celestial bodies as they appear here are accurate, although abbreviated.
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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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