... McNaught s Matinee . ... Comets grow bright when they're close to the Sun, basking in the intense solar radiation. ... Southern Comet . ... Shown above is a time-lapse movie in infrared light detailing how stars in the central light-year of our Galaxy have moved over the past eight years. ... Is this coat hanger a star cluster or an asterism? ... Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602....