Pick one of the mystery objects below. You will see three pictures of the object, each one taken in a different type of light. With each picture, we will ask you to make a couple observations.

After you’ve seen all the pictures, you can compare your findings to an answer key, and try to identify the mystery object.

Ready? OK – pick your object:

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Ask Megan Donahue, an astronomer at Michigan State University, questions about stars and galaxies!