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A cluster brimming with millions of stars glistens like an iridescent opal in this image from NASA Spitzer Space...
This image from NASA Herschel, in the constellation of Vulpecula, shows an entire assembly line of newborn stars....
Swirling dust clouds and bright newborn stars dominate the view in this image of the Lagoon nebula from NASA Spitzer...
This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows where the action is taking place in galaxy NGC 1291. The outer...
NASA Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes have uncovered a long-lost population of active supermassive black holes,...
W3 is an enormous stellar nursery about 6,200 light-years away in the Perseus Arm, one of the Milky Way galaxy main...
A range of supermassive black holes lights up this new image from NASA NuSTAR. All of the dots are active black...
Our sky is filled with a diffuse background glow, known as the cosmic infrared background. Much of the light is from...
Astronomers have discovered a massive cluster of young galaxies forming in the distant universe. The growing...
Looking like a spider web swirled into a spiral, galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this...
Filamentary structures in our Milky Way galaxy are apparent at large scales, as shown in this ESA image from Planck...
This image of the microwave sky was synthesized using data spanning the range of light frequencies detected by ESA...
This artist concept shows NASA Voyager spacecraft against a field of stars in the darkness of space as they travel...
A brilliant burst of star formation is revealed in this image combining observations from NASA Spitzer and Hubble...
This image from the Herschel Observatory, a European Space Agency mission, reveals some of the coldest and darkest...
These two images show tacked Chandra images for two different classes of distant, massive galaxy detected with NASA...
Peering deep inside a cluster of several hundred thousand stars, NASA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the...
The Tadpole galaxy is the result of a recent galactic interaction in the local universe. These spectacular images...
The big blob-like structure shown here, named Himiko after the legendary ancient queen of Japan, turns out to be...
This image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is a view within the constellation Cassiopeia of...
This artist concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun....
This artist concept based on data fromNASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows delicate greenish crystals sprinkled...
This infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows three baby stars in the bustling center of our Milky Way...
This diagram shows findings of results of observations made primarily by NASA Spitzer Telescopes and the Very Large...