Space

Astronomy throughout History

The study of all sorts of celestial objects, such as planets, stars, galaxies, intergalactic ...Read more

People have been wondering about what they see in the sky for a long time. We interpret what ...Read more

Many cultures have seen distinctive patterns, called constellations, formed by the stars in ...Read more

Click on a city below to see a map of the stars for that city. New cities will continue to ...Read more

The pinpoints of light that you see in the night sky are stars. Your ability to see the stars ...Read more

Did you know that about 200 planets have been discovered in orbit around distant stars? The ...Read more

There is some pretty strange stuff in space. Things which are unlike anything that anyone sees ...Read more

The introduction of telescopes to the study of astronomy opened up the universe, but it took ...Read more

Cosmology is the study of the overall structure of the universe. And just what is the Universe?