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This majestic false-color image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the "mountains" where stars are born....
What are some skywatching highlights in September 2023? Venus returns to the early morning skies as a bright beacon...
NASA Aquarius instrument thermal blanketing is completed and inspected. In addition, all external surfaces of the...
This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope is of the Rosette nebula, a turbulent star-forming region located 5,000...
Saturn moon Janus, its rugged surface shown in shadow and light, passes before the planet rings in this image taken...
Iapetus is a moon of extreme contrasts. The light and dark features give the moon a distinctive yin and yang...
The same crater, as seen by NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, under very different lighting. On the left the Sun...
This MOC image shows a nearly ice-free view of layers exposed by erosion in the north polar region. The light-toned...
This artistically enhanced image from NASA WISE data shows galaxies clumped together in the Fornax cluster, located...
The north pole of Saturn, in the fresh light of spring, is revealed in this color image from NASA Cassini...
Two sources of light reveal the dramatic surface of Saturn moon Enceladus in this NASA Cassini image in which...
NASA Cassini spacecraft examines the rough dark-light dichotomy of the terrain on Saturn moon Iapetus. Lit terrain...
This image from NASA Cassini spacecraft, the first of its kind, shows lightning on Saturn night side flashing in a...
This image taken by the ultraviolet-light monitoring camera on the European Space Agency ESA XMM-Newton telescope...
With its light and dark surface, Iapetus appears almost like a yin and yang symbol or a comma punctuation mark in...
This diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-69, a two-planet system about 2,700...
Light and dark halves of Titan are visible in this image from NASA Cassini spacecraft which illustrates the seasonal...
Excellent exposures of light-toned layered deposits occur along the northern edge of Hellas Basin as seen by NASA...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope sees RCW 79 in the southern Milky Way, 17,200 light-years from Earth in the...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope image of a glowing stellar nursery provides a spectacular contrast to the opaque cloud...
This MOC image shows outcrops of light-toned, massively-bedded rock in western Candor Chasma, part of the Valles...
This image shows the Andromeda galaxy, first as seen in visible light by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory,...
This composite image depicts the moon rugged south polar region in two lights. The color image is the highest...
This set of images from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Eagle nebula in different hues of infrared light....