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Acechando en nuestra galaxia, a aproximadamente 6.000 años luz de la Tierra, hay un monstruo llamado Cygnus X-1.
Devorado por la gravedad
Lurking in our galaxy, approximately 6,000 light-years from Earth, is a monster black hole.
Devoured by Gravity
Exoplanets – planets outside our solar system – are everywhere. At NASA, we're studying exoplanets to learn all about their weirdness, their variety, and all the fascinating things they can tell us...
What Is an Exoplanet?
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet orbiting a distant star may have lost its atmosphere but gained a second one through volcanic activity.
Distant Planet May Be On Its Second Atmosphere, NASA's Hubble Finds
A rocky exoplanet GJ 1132 b, similar in size and density to Earth, possesses a hazy atmosphere made up of volcanic gases. Scientists say GJ 1132 b, orbiting a red-dwarf star about 41 light-years aw...
A Super-Earth With Plenty of Atmosphere
For a planet, the habitable zone is the distance from a star that allows liquid water to persist on its surface – as long as that planet has a suitable atmosphere.
What Is the Habitable Zone?
Since a giant planet in a scorching orbit captured public attention in 1995, a sky full of strange and exotic exoplanets – planets orbiting other stars – has only grown richer in variety and detail.
Exoplanet Types Graphic
En las profundidades del universo, los núcleos de dos estrellas colapsadas se fusionan violentamente para emitir una explosión de la forma de luz más mortal y poderosa que existe, conocida como ray...
Demonios de Rayos Gamma
In the depths of the universe, the cores of two collapsed stars violently merge to release a burst of the deadliest and most powerful form of light, known as gamma rays.
Gamma Ray Ghouls
Algo extraño y misterioso se arrastra por el cosmos. Los científicos lo llaman materia oscura.
Materia Oscura
Something strange and mysterious creeps throughout the cosmos. Scientists call it dark matter.
Dark Matter
¡Esta galaxia escalofriantemente encantada dejó de crear estrellas, de manera misteriosa, solo unos pocos miles de millones de años tras el Big Bang!
Cementerio Galáctico
This chillingly haunted galaxy mysteriously stopped making stars only a few billion years after the Big Bang!
Galactic Graveyard
Earth hasn’t always looked the same. Over billions of years, it has gone from orange dot, to a snowball to the blue orb we call home When we talk about "Earth-like" planets, that term can be very d...
Planet Earth Through the Ages
Jupiter-size exoplanets orbiting close to their stars have upended ideas about how giant planets form. Finding young members of this planet class could help answer key questions.
Young Hot Jupiter
Estos tres mundos condenados estuvieron entre los primeros y más espeluznantes que se descubrieron mientras orbitaban su estrella no-muerta, conocida como un púlsar.
Mundos Zombis
Ubicado a menos de 32 años luz de la Tierra, AU Microscopii se encuentra entre los sistemas planetarios más jóvenes jamás observados por los astrónomos, ¡y su estrella tiene unas brutales rabietas!
Llamaradas de Furia
Este planeta lejano puede parecer un refugio amigable… ¡pero no te dejes engañar! ¡El clima en este mundo es mortal! ¡El color azul cobalto del planeta proviene de una atmósfera brumosa e incendiar...
Lluvia de Terror
Located less than 32 light-years from Earth, AU Microscopii is among the youngest planetary systems ever observed by astronomers, and its star throws vicious temper tantrums!
Flares of Fury Poster
Exoplanets, planets beyond our solar system, whether orbiting other stars or floating freely between them, can make the planets closer to home look tame by comparison.
Exoplanet Types Infographic
Grab crayons, markers, paint or colored pencils and shade in the hues of rocky terrain, lava oceans and other amazing features of distant worlds beyond our solar system.
Exoplanet Travel Bureau Coloring Book
¿Qué colores iluminarían los primeros exoplanetas descubiertos?
51 Pegasi b Página Para Colorear
¿Qué colores te imaginas en el mundo ultracaliente de 55 Cancri e?
55 Cancri e Página Para Colorear
¡Colorea este mundo! ¿Te imaginas un planeta rocoso o uno envuelto en gas y hielo?
HD 40307 g Página Para Colorear
Si visitaras Kepler-16b, ¿qué colores crees que verías?
Kepler-16b Página Para Colorear
Explore Alien Worlds
Exoplanet Travel Bureau
This set of travel posters envision a day when the creativity of scientists and engineers will allow us to do things we can only dream of now.
Strange New Worlds
Explore an interactive gallery of some of the most intriguing and exotic planets discovered so far.
Historic Timeline
A planetary tour through time. The ancients debated the existence of planets beyond our own; now we know of thousands.