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New data from NASA Cassini spacecraft suggest that the shape of our solar system moving through the local Milky Way...
Keeping a close watch on the outer portion of Saturn B ring, NASA Cassini spacecraft records the complex inward and...
This artist concepts shows new research from scientists using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope suggests that a...
A composite image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4258 showing X-ray emission observed with NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory...
The magnificent spiral arms of the nearby galaxy Messier 81 are highlighted in this NASA Spitzer Space Telescope...
The Milky Way and other galaxies in the universe harbor many young star clusters and associations that each contain...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope contributed to the infrared component of the observations of a surprisingly large...
This image zooms in on the region around the first hot DOG red object in magenta circle, discovered by NASA...
This composite image comes from the ESA Planck shows a festive portrait of our Milky Way galaxy shows a mishmash of...
This artist concept shows a feeding, or active, supermassive black hole with a jet streaming outward at nearly the...
A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. This image, taken by NASA Hubble Space Telescope, is a very...
This mosaic of the Andromeda spiral galaxy highlights explosive stars in its interior, and cooler, dusty stars...
This artist concept illustrates the frenzied activity at the core of our Milky Way galaxy. The galactic center hosts...
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy cluster, SDSS J1038+4849, that appears to have...
This infrared image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows exceptionally cold, dense cloud cores seen...
This plot of data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope reveals vast reservoirs of hot gas in a galaxy about a billion...
Astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have spotted a dust factory 30 million light-years away in the spiral...
The color scale in this image from the Planck mission represents the emission from dust, a minor but crucial...
This false-color image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows a distant galaxy yellow that houses a quasar, a...
On the morning of February 1, 2011, NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, took its last snapshot of the...
This image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy in infrared light as seen by ESA Herschel Space Observatory and...
The constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) is especially rich in galaxies, due in part to the presence of a massive and...
This irregular dwarf galaxy's closes neighbor is 2.3 million light years away, so yeah, we're calling it...
This Hubble image shows the central region of a spiral galaxy known as NGC 247. NGC 247 is a relatively small spiral...