... Between 4.5 and 4.3 billion years ago, a very large object struck near the Moon's southpole, creating the€аSouth Pole-Aitken Basin, one of the two largest proven impact basins in the Solar System. ...
... A total of more than 400 red giant stars at widely differing heights above the plane of the galaxy in the direction towards the south galactic pole were included in this work. ...
... background emission of the Orion Nebula, while the bright fuzzy patches on either side betray the presence of the embedded parent star that illuminates tenuous collections of dust above its north and southpoles to create these small reflection nebulae ...
... background emission of the Orion Nebula, while the bright fuzzy patches on either side betray the presence of the embedded parent star that illuminates tenuous collections of dust above its north and southpoles to create these small reflection nebulae ...
... background emission of the Orion Nebula, while the bright fuzzy patches on either side betray the presence of the embedded parent star that illuminates tenuous collections of dust above its north and southpoles to create these small reflection nebulae ...
... As the sky appears to rotate clockwise around the south celestial pole (roughly on the upper left edge of the image), the Milky Way goes down slowly, until it is lying almost horizontal before sunrise. ...
... The team was especially interested in regions near the north and southpoles, because the polar ice caps are the planetтАЩs largest known reservoir of water. ...