Outer Space Universe

A comet is a small celestial object made mostly of ice and dust that, when close enough to the sun, displays a visible coma (a fuzzy outline) and sometimes a tail. They typically orbit the sun in...

https://www.outerspaceuniverse.org/ever-wonder-what-the-difference-is-between-a-comet-and-a-meteor.html

The beautiful image above shows a giant bow shock wave in space around a young star. The name of the star is LL Ori and it is located in one of our favorite locations in space - the Orion Nebula....

https://www.outerspaceuniverse.org/giant-bow-shock-in-space.html

Rare Snow Rollers formed throughout portions of Ohio and Pennsylvania during a particularly windy winter storm on January 27, 2014. The post Snow Rollers – Rare Weather Phenomenon first appe...

https://www.outerspaceuniverse.org/snow-rollers-rare-weather-phenomenon.html

I thought it was about time we talked about Jupiter. Jupiter is, after all, the biggest planet in our Solar System. In fact, it's almost big enough to be a star! Let's explore some facts about Ju...

https://www.outerspaceuniverse.org/facts-about-jupiter.html

The Prawn Nebula or IC 4628, is immense region of space that is loaded with all the ingredients needed to form new stars - and it's happening right before our very eyes! The post New Stars Bein...

https://www.outerspaceuniverse.org/new-stars-being-formed-in-the-prawn-nebula.html

You probably know that our Sun is a star. You also probably know that it is much larger than our own planet, Earth - in fact, you could fit around 1,000,000 Earth's into the sun! But - do you kno...

https://www.outerspaceuniverse.org/nml-cygni-the-largest-star-we-currently-know-of-in-the-universe.html

Comet ISON was discovered in September 2012 by Russian astronomers Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok. They are part of a night sky survey program called the International Scientific Optical Net...

https://www.outerspaceuniverse.org/the-facts-about-newly-discovered-comet-ison.html

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured this amazing image of a star nearing the end of it's life. The above image is of a star known as U Camelopardalis. It is located near the North Celest...

https://www.outerspaceuniverse.org/a-star-near-the-end-of-its-life.html

The Red Bull Stratos mission, undertaken on October 14, 2012, went off without any major problems. The mission was an attempt for a balloon assisted aircraft to reach a world record altitude of 1...

https://www.outerspaceuniverse.org/red-bull-stratos-mission-successful-speed-of-sound-broken-by-felix-baumgartner.html

About 150,000 light years away, a cosmic collision is producing a twisted galaxy with a bright smooth central core. In April of 2001, Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 was trained on a galax...

https://www.outerspaceuniverse.org/galaxy-twisted-after-collision.html