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From left to right, artist concepts of the Spitzer, Planck and Kepler space telescopes. NASA extended Spitzer and...
Ready to showcase the Webb space telescope’s first full-color images, back in touch with a spacecraft on an...
In the image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope, angelic figures take on the form of the galactic group called Stephan...
This illustration shows a star behind a shattered comet. Observations of the star KIC 8462852 by NASA's Kepler and...
The star-forming nebula W51 is one of the largest "star factories" in the Milky Way galaxy. Interstellar dust blocks...
The young galaxy SDSS090122.37+181432.3, also known as S0901, is seen here by the Herschel Space Observatory and the...
This image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy in infrared light as seen by ESA Herschel Space Observatory and...
Inside NASA's giant thermal vacuum chamber, called Chamber A, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the James...
Six hundred and fifty light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, a dead star about the size of Earth, is...
A massive cluster of yellowish galaxies is seemingly caught in a spider web of eerily distorted background galaxies...
This image demonstrates how data from two of NASA Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, are...
The 18th and final primary mirror segment is installed on what will be the biggest and most powerful space telescope...
A major milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope, what astronomers could learn from a “mini” monster black hole,...
NASA image release September 29, 2011 This image of the distant active galaxy Markarian 509 was taken in April 2007...
This artist's concept shows OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb, a planet discovered through a technique called microlensing. The...
Like great friends, galaxies stick together. Astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have spotted a handful...
NGC 520 is the product of a collision between two disk galaxies that started 300 million years ago. This image is...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope set its infrared eyes upon the dusty remains of shredded asteroids around several dead...
This artist concept illustrates an imminent planetary collision around a pair of double stars. NASA Spitzer Space...
This composite image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the remnant of a star that exploded, called Cassiopeia...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has lifted the cosmic veil to see an otherwise hidden newborn star, while detecting the...
A big galaxy is stealing gas right off the back of its smaller companion in this new image from NASA Spitzer Space...
This trio of ghostly images from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the disembodied remains of dying stars called...
This composite image shows the Coronet in X-rays from Chandra and infrared from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope orange,...