There are 300,000 pieces of garbage orbiting earth

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Black holes are some of the most powerful objects in the Universe. When an unlucky star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole in the centre of a galaxy, it gets ripped apart by a black hole,it becomes extremely stretched out and resembles spaghetti. Astronomers call this ‚Spaghettification‘

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The deeper we look into the cosmos, the more galaxies we see. One 2016 study estimated that the observable universe contains two trillion—or two million million—galaxies. Some of those distant systems are similar to our own Milky Way galaxy, while others are quite different.

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Burst of hot solar plasma called a coronal mass ejection It wouldn't be possible to see this kind of activity without the help of specialized spacecraft

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Moon is completely inside the Earth's shadow during this stage of a total lunar eclipse.

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The supermassive black hole has a mass equivalent to 17 billion suns and is located inside the galaxy NGC 1277

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Galactic year (or a cosmic year) is the time that the Sun takes to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. We move 230 km every second (143 mi/s) in orbit around the center (less than 0.1% of light speed).

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Space junk or space garbage is defunct man-made objects in space that no longer serve a useful function. As of January 2021, the US Space Surveillance Network reported 21,901 artificial objects in orbit above the Earth.

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NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations of the galaxy ESO 495-21, about 30 million light-years from Earth.

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