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This image was taken May 21 and 22, 2003, by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The image was made from data gathered...
Wispy tendrils of hot dust and gas glow brightly in this ultraviolet image of the Cygnus Loop nebula, taken by NASA...
This image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer GALEX shows Messier 94, also known as NGC 4736, in ultraviolet light....
A new study analyzes several sites where dead stars once exploded. The explosions, called Type Ia supernovae,...
A group of six streaking objects, the identities of which remain unknown, can be seen here flying across the...
This image was taken on May 21 and 22, 2003, by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The image was made from data...
New results from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Anglo-Australian Telescope atop Siding Spring Mountain in...
This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Astronomers observed...
This artist's impression shows galaxy WISE J224607.55-052634.9 (W2246-0526 for short), the most luminous galaxy ever...
This is a Hubble Space Telescope composite image of a supernova explosion designated SN 2014J in the galaxy M82. At...
NASA image release January 11, 2012 Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have solved a longstanding...
NASA image release June 16, 2011 Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the...
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The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31 since it is the 31st object on Messier's list of diffuse sky objects, is the...
A massive cluster of yellowish galaxies is seemingly caught in a spider web of eerily distorted background galaxies...
The Sculptor galaxy is seen in a new light, in this composite image from NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the iridescent interior of one of the most active galaxies in our...
In this artist conception based on data from ESA Herschel observatory, a galaxy accretes mass from rapid, narrow...
This image of the Globular cluster Messier 2 (M2) was taken by Galaxy Evolution Explorer on August 20, 2003. This...
New detailed radio data from the NRAO Jansky Very Large Array VLA revealed that the large perpendicular extension of...
Magenta spots in this image from NASA NuSTAR show two black holes in the Circinus galaxy, located 13 million...
This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or M101, in the constellation of Ursa Major, combines data from four of NASA...
ESA Herschel Space Observatory first spotted the colliding duo in images taken with longer-wavelength infrared light...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer large field of view and multi-wavelength infrared sight allowed it to form...