What is the Milky Way?
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
If you ever find yourself far removed from the light pollution that saturates the city and suburban skies, take a look at the night sky and prepare to be impressed. Those of us who spend most of our lives in and around cities are often awestruck by how many stars there are out there once […]
What is a galaxy?
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008A galaxy is a massive collection of stars gravitationally bound around a common central core. It is believed that most, if not all galaxies have at their core a super massive black hole - a black hole coming in at hundreds of thousands or billions times more massive than our own Sun.
Speaking of our own […]