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Every child on the planet knows the moon: a ball of rock orbiting the Earth. Most of the other planets in our solar system have moons, too. The giant planet Jupiter even has a whopping amount of 79 satellites – four large ones and dozens of tiny moonlets. So,...

How are stars born? This is a fascinating phenomenon that the scientific community has been studying for many years. We know that atoms come together, creating molecular clouds with high-density cores that then turn into a star. To understand how particles attract each other, try to picture a lot...

For the first time ever, astronomers have taken a photo of a black hole. Black holes are regions in space where gravity is extreme. Everything that comes too close is sucked in. And nothing can ever get out again. Even light, traveling at 300,000 kilometers per second, cannot escape...

Astronomers have obtained new images of the rings of Uranus, a distant planet in our own solar system. The new images were made by two big observatories: ALMA, and the European Very Large Telescope (VLT). The astronomers were also able to take the temperature of the rings for the...