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The Blue Ring Nebula was discovered in 2004 by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission. Astronomers think...
This vibrant image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our...
In this image the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope takes a close look at the spiral galaxy NGC 4217, located 60...
NASA image release October 19, 2010 Though the universe is chock full of spiral-shaped galaxies, no two look exactly...
This NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope picture shows a galaxy named SBS 1415+437 (also called...
Black-hole-powered galaxies called blazars are the most common sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space...
Observation Date: 1 pointing on Dec 4, 2000 and 9 pointings between Nov 18 and Dec 5, 2008. Distance Estimate: About...
Astronomers have discovered one of the most distant planets known, a gas giant about 13,000 light-years from Earth,...
NGC 6621/2 VV 247, Arp 81 is a strongly interacting pair of galaxies, seen about 100 million years after their...
This graph, or spectrum, from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, charts light from a faraway galaxy located 10 billion...
An optical color image of galaxies is seen here overlaid with X-ray data magenta from NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic...
A leggy cosmic creature comes out of hiding in this new infrared view from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer....
This image from ESA Herschel Space Observatory reveals a suspected ring at the center of our galaxy is warped for...
This image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer highlights the dust that speckles the Andromeda galaxy...
Our Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with dust in this new all-sky map from Planck, a European Space Agency mission with...
NASA Hubble and Spitzer telescopes combined to make these shape-shifting galaxies taking on the form of a giant...
RCW 108 is a region where stars are actively forming within the Milky Way galaxy about 4,000 light years from Earth....
This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2, shows a galaxy known as NGC 6872 in the...
In this new view of the Andromeda, also known as M31, galaxy from the Herschel space observatory, cool lanes of...
This image is a portion of the all-sky survey from NASA WISE. It highlights the first of about 1,000 hot DOGs found...
NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows the inner region of Abell 1689, an immense cluster of galaxies located 2.2 billion...
This artist concept shows a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its core. The black hole is shooting out jets...
The real monster black hole is revealed in this image from NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array of colliding...
NASA NuSTAR serendipitous discovery in this field lies to the left of a galaxy, called IC751, at which the telescope...