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Spirals, ellipticals and the occasional cosmic train wreck.

✦About 2 trillion in the observable universe

Star nurseries and the glowing leftovers of stars that went out.

✦The nebula W40 hides hundreds of newborn stars

One star, eight planets and a suspicious amount of rocks.

✦The Sun holds 99.8% of all the mass in the Solar System

Rockets, probes and the brave humans strapped to them.

✦Apollo 11 reached the Moon in about 4 days

Stars and the worlds that circle them, starting with our own.

✦More than 6,000 planets are known around other stars

Eight worlds, from scorched Mercury to windy Neptune.

✦Jupiter is more than twice as massive as all the other planets together

Giant balls of burning gas, our own Sun included.

✦Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth

Homes in orbit, with a view that never gets old.

✦The ISS circles Earth about every 90 minutes

Eyes on the sky, on mountaintops and in orbit.

✦SOHO has watched the Sun since 1996