Imagine the biggest firework you have ever seen, then multiply it by a billion. Now imagine a whole galaxy of fireworks going off at once. That is still not as bright or as powerful as a supernova, which is the explosion of a star. A supernova is the most dramatic and powerful event in space,…
In the dark canvas of the night sky, there is a famous group of stars called Orion the Hunter. Just below Orion’s belt, there is a fuzzy patch of light that you can see with your own eyes. This is the Orion Nebula. For a long time, it has been a beautiful sight for people…
For a long time, the famous Hubble Space Telescope was our best eye in space. It gave us beautiful pictures of galaxies and nebulae, and it taught us so much about the universe. But now, we have a new, even more powerful tool: the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This amazing machine is like a…
Look up at the night sky on a clear night, far away from city lights. What you see is a faint, cloudy band of light stretching across the darkness. That beautiful, glowing path is our home in the universe: the Milky Way Galaxy. It’s made of hundreds of billions of stars, planets, and vast clouds…
In the huge and amazing space all around us, there are many strange and powerful things. One of the most mysterious is the black hole. People often think of a black hole as a kind of vacuum cleaner in space that sucks everything up. While that’s not quite right, the truth is even more amazing….
