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Released to commemorate the 14th anniversary of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is the image of a galaxy...
Our Milky Way galaxy and its small companions are surrounded by a giant halo of million-degree gas (seen in blue in...
This image shows two companion galaxies, NGC 4625 top and NGC 4618 bottom, and their surrounding cocoons of cool...
This enhanced image from the far-ultraviolet detector on NASA Galaxy Evolution shows a ghostly shell of ionized gas...
Astronomers using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, are helping to trace the shape of...
This galaxy, known as NGC 2337, resides 25 million light-years away in the constellation of Lynx. NGC 2337 is an...
Only rarely does an astronomical object have a political association. However, the spiral galaxy NGC 7252 acquired...
The central parts of the starburst galaxy NGC 1313. The very active state of this galaxy is evident from the image,...
This picture of the galaxy UGC 10214 was was taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which was installed...
View a video clip zoom in on galaxy ESO 306-17 here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4409589832/ This image from the...
The galaxy cutting dramatically across the frame of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a slightly warped...
This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is of the planetary nebula NGC 7293 also known as the...
This graphic illustrates how a faraway quasar (an extremely bright region in the center of some distant galaxies) is...
The galaxy pictured here is NGC 4424, located in the constellation of Virgo. It is not visible with the naked eye...
This image shows the merger of two galaxies, known as NGC 7752 (larger) and NGC 7753 (smaller), also collectively...
NASA WISE has identified about 1,000 extremely obscured objects over the sky, as marked by the magenta symbols....
Observations from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope provide strong evidence that the slender, bulgeless galaxies can,...
In the 19th century, astronomer V. M. Slipher first discovered a hat-like object that appeared to be rushing away...
These four panels show the Whirlpool galaxy — which is actually a pair of galaxies also known as Messier 51 and NGC...
The tip of the wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this new view from NASA Great Observatories....
AM 0500-620 consists of a highly symmetric spiral galaxy seen nearly face-on and partially backlit by a background...
This image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer highlights the Andromeda galaxy older stellar population in...
This parallelogram shaped region of dust observed by ESA Herschel Space telescope can be best described using galaxy...
Observations from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope show that filamentary galaxies form stars at twice the rate of their...