In the mid-1800s, astronomers surveying the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere noticed something strange about the star Eta Carinae
Can we find planets at the centre of a galaxy?
Can planets withstand the violence at the centre of a galaxy?
Why hasn’t gravity rounded off Miranda’s jagged surface?
Gravity gives celestial bodies their rounded shape, so why does Miranda look so rough?
Messier 7: Violence in the tranquility
Observed in ancient times, this is one of the more savage clusters in the galaxy