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This is a composite image of N49, the brightest supernova remnant in optical light in the Large Magellanic Cloud;...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer will uncover many failed stars, or brown dwarfs, in infrared light. This...
WISE J104915.57-531906, center of the larger image, was taken by the NASA WISE. This is the closest star system...
The giant star Zeta Ophiuchi, a young, large and hot star located around 370 light-years away, is having a hocking...
In the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, workers check the deployment of the cover of the telescope on NASA Galaxy...
Appearing like the swirls of marble, the wispy terrain of Saturn moon Dione is captured by NASA Cassini spacecraft...
This graphic illustrates how the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment, or CIBER, team measures a diffuse glow of...
As Cassini watches the rings pass in front of the bright red giant star Aldebaran, the star light fluctuates,...
This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows the Southern Pinwheel galaxy, also know as Messier...
Titan polar collar, previously seen by Voyager 2 and the Hubble Space Telescope, has now been observed by the...
Saturn north polar hexagon basks in the Sun light now that spring has come to the northern hemisphere. Many smaller...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures light-toned ridges found in a large fracture located east...
This false-color image NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows that fractures and possible layers are visible in the...
NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer took this ultraviolet color image of the galaxy NGC5962 on June 7, 2003. This spiral...
NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this low-light raw image during the late afternoon of the rover...
There are nearly 200 galaxies within the marked circles in this image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. These are...
This full-circle panorama shows the terrain around the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on part of a...
This image composite shows comet Tempel 1 in infrared light . The infrared picture highlights the warm, or sunlit,...
This full-circle, 3-D panorama shows the terrain around the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on part of a...
This false-color image from three of NASA Great Observatories provides one example of a star that died in a fiery...
Layers of rock exposed in the lower portion of a tall mound near the center of Gale Crater on Mars exhibit...
NASA Cassini spacecraft captured Saturn B ring showing off bright spokes in the middle of this image taken at high...
This infrared vision of NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that the Sombrero galaxy, named after its...
Newborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud...