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The magnificent spiral arms of the nearby galaxy Messier 81 are highlighted in this image from NASA Spitzer Space...
This ultraviolet color image of the galaxy UGC10445 was taken by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer on June 7 and June...
This is an ultraviolet color image of the galaxy NGC5398 taken by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer on June 7, 2003....
This image of the nearby edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 55 was taken by Galaxy Evolution Explorer on September 14, 2003,...
Ultraviolet images such as this one from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer suggest the M83 has unusual pockets of...
Young hot blue stars dominate the outer spiral arms of nearby galaxy NGC 300, while the older stars congregate in...
NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is celebrates its fourth year in space with some of M81 hottest stars. In this...
This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows infrared light from the Sunflower galaxy, otherwise known as...
The perfectly picturesque spiral galaxy known as Messier 81, or M81, looks sharp in this new composite from NASA...
The magenta spots in this image from NASA NuSTAR show two black holes in the spiral galaxy called NGC 1313, or the...
This image taken by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows in unprecedented detail the galaxy Centaurus A last big meal:...
The galaxy Messier 101 is a swirling spiral of stars, gas, and dust. Messier 101 is nearly twice as wide as our...
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer took this image of the spiral galaxy Messier 51 on June 19 and 20, 2003. Messier 51...
This image taken by the ultraviolet-light monitoring camera on the European Space Agency ESA XMM-Newton telescope...
This dazzling infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows hundreds of thousands of stars crowded into the...
This composite of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 is 522,000 light-years across, making it about five times...
This image of the dwarf spiral galaxy NGC 247 was taken by Galaxy Evolution Explorer on October 13, 2003, in a...
NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer took this near ultraviolet image of Messier 101 on June 20, 2003. Messier 101 is a...
The galaxy Messier 100, or M100, shows its swirling spiral in this infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope....
The image from NASA Hubble Telescope shows spiral arms and dust clouds in the nearby Whirlpool galaxy. Visible...
This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a beautiful spiral galaxy known as PGC 54493, located in the...
Hubble sees a galaxy 60 million light-years away This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the galaxy IC...
This image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows spiral galaxy NGC 7331, center, in a three-color X-ray image....
The smudge of stars at the center of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a galaxy known as UGC 5797. UGC...