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Our Milky Way Galaxy spans about 100,000 light-years but it is not even close to being the largest galaxy in the Universe. The title of that goes to the Rubin's Galaxy, the largest known in the local universe. According to NASA, it is a…

A volcano is an opening on the surface of a planet or moon that allows material hotter than its surroundings to escape from its interior. Although numerous volcanoes exist on Earth, the biggest volcano in our solar system does not exist on…

Titan, the biggest moon of Saturn, is the second largest moon in our solar system. It is an icy celestial body concealed by a golden hazy atmosphere. According to NASA, only Ganymede, the moon of Jupiter, is bigger than Titan. Titan is…

After the formation of stars takes place in a nebula, many of them form groups from the same Nebula, forming a Star Cluster. Star clusters can contain as few as ten stars or as many as millions of stars. One type of star cluster is the…

Nebulae are places where stars are birthed. The makeup of a Nebula consists of gases, mainly hydrogen and helium. Although most nebulae belong to just three types - spherical, elliptical and bipolar, some of them might be irregularly…

Various natural phenomena grace the sky often. One of the most common occurings are auroras, which occur because of Geomagnetic storms impacting Earth. However, there is one more phenomenon which occurs, and it is much rarer. As the Sun…

Comets are of great interest to scientists as they are remnants of the early Solar System, providing valuable information about its composition and conditions. One of these is the Rare Green Comet ZTF which made its extremely rare approach…

Today's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day is the Spiral Galaxy, also known as NGC 2841. It is an unbarred spiral galaxy located about 46 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major, which is also known as the Great Bear.…

The Andromeda Galaxy is home to several interesting objects, including globular clusters, planetary nebulae, and supernovae. It is one of the most distant, yet easily visible objects to the eye. Also known as Messier 31, it is a spiral…

When gas, dust and plasma get accumulated in space, it usually leads to the formation of interstellar clouds. Initially, these clouds are hot in nature but when they become dense and cool enough, molecules form inside them, giving them…