On starry nights

Cosmic fireworks

Astronomical distances

Hoary tales

Extraterrestrial observations

The Hubble Telescope helps bring quasars closer

Tiniest of the lot

Sunny sights

The brightest star

Birth of the moon

Simulating supernovae

Lasers would be used to simulate explosions of old stars

The light of gravity

Highly accurate measurements about a star's features can be made by using its gravity

No such planet exists

The apparent discovery of an extra-solar planet may have been a mistake

The universe's fate

Astronomers are using a supernova's light to explain the mysteriously expanding universe

Changed perspective

Astronomers evolve new techniques to measure distance of far-off objects

New heavenly body

Astronomers discover a tiny moon

Eating them alive

Almost 8 per cent of the stars in the universe have literally gobbled up planets

Galactic census

There are 125 billion galaxies in the Universe

Magnetic neighbours

Mars once had a magnetic field as strong as the Earth

Bytes

Planet X

Incorrect data spurred on the discovery of Pluto

Antarctica turns gallery for artists

The central truth

Latest studies lend credence to the theory that the Milky Way has a large black hole at its center

Breaking the ice

Discovery of ice on the Moon might make colonising it and using it as a low-cost outer- space missions launching centre a less difficult target

Cousins in space

Observation of the star Lalande 21185 could lead to the first direct imaging of another solar planet

Witness to genesis

Cosmologists spy on galaxies being born, and conclude that these massive stellar assemblages might have formed earlier than believed