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Mercury

The swift, scorched innermost world

Venus

Earth's toxic twin and the brightest planet

Earth

Our home — the only known world with life

Mars

The red planet of dust storms and giant volcanoes

Jupiter

King of the planets

Saturn

The ringed jewel

Uranus

The sideways planet

Neptune

The windy blue outpost

Pluto

The heart of the Kuiper Belt

The Sun

Our star

Sirius

The brightest star in the night sky

Betelgeuse

Orion's red shoulder

Rigel

Orion's brilliant blue foot

Vega

The summer jewel of Lyra

Polaris

The North Star

Antares

The heart of the Scorpion

Arcturus

The bright guardian of the bear

Proxima Centauri

The closest star to the Sun

The Moon

Earth's constant companion

Io

The most volcanic world known

Europa

An ocean hidden beneath the ice

Ganymede

The largest moon in the solar system

Callisto

The most cratered surface known

Titan

A world of methane lakes

Enceladus

Icy geysers into space

Triton

A captured world orbiting backwards

Phobos

The doomed moon of Mars

Andromeda Galaxy

Our giant galactic neighbour

Milky Way

Our home galaxy

Triangulum Galaxy

The third-largest of the Local Group

Whirlpool Galaxy

A cosmic dance of two galaxies

Sombrero Galaxy

The hat-shaped galaxy

Large Magellanic Cloud

The Milky Way's brightest satellite

Messier 87

Home of the first imaged black hole

Orion Nebula

The nearest great stellar nursery

Crab Nebula

The remains of a star seen exploding in 1054

Ring Nebula

A dying star's glowing smoke ring

Eagle Nebula

Home of the Pillars of Creation

Helix Nebula

The 'Eye of God'

Carina Nebula

Home of the volatile Eta Carinae

Pleiades

The Seven Sisters

Omega Centauri

The Milky Way's largest globular cluster

Hercules Cluster

The great northern globular

Sagittarius A*

The black hole at the heart of the Milky Way

Hubble Ultra-Deep Field

10,000 galaxies in a speck of sky