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What is a star — the Westerlund 2 star cluster, thousands of young stars

What Is a Star? A Plain-English Guide to How Stars Work

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What is a nebula — NGC 3324 emission nebula imaged in narrowband from Deepsky Chile

What Is a Nebula? A Stargazer’s Guide to the Clouds That...

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Illustration of NASA's DART planetary-defense mission approaching an asteroid

What Happens If an Asteroid Hits Earth?

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Eris and its moon Dysnomia imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope

Eris: The Dwarf Planet That Demoted Pluto

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A Perseid meteor streaking over the Milky Way during a meteor shower

Meteor Showers: A Complete Stargazer Guide

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Europa, one of the major moons of the solar system

The Moons of the Solar System

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The Sun imaged in extreme ultraviolet by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

The Sun: Our Star Explained

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Mercury, the smallest planet, in enhanced colour from MESSENGER

Mercury: The Smallest Planet

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Mars, the red planet, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope

Mars: The Red Planet

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The full Moon showing its craters and dark maria

The Moon: Our Nearest Neighbour in Space

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