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This mosaic of images from NASA WISE Telescope is in the constellation of Cassiopeia. This region contains a large...
This composite image is of spiral galaxy M106 NGC 4258; optical data from the Digitized Sky Survey is yellow, radio...
This image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, shows four galaxies in the Virgo cluster: Messier 59,...
The image on the left shows an infrared view of the center of our Milky Way galaxy as seen by the 1983 Infrared...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer highlights the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy about 200,000...
Our Milky Way is a dusty place. So dusty that we cannot see the center of the galaxy in visible light. Thanks to...
NASA Kepler mission has discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one. The planet,...
Studied by astronomers, Serpens Cloud Core is one of the youngest collections of stars ever seen in our galaxy. This...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, captured this image of a star-forming cloud of dust and gas located in the...
This image from NASA Herschel, was taken looking towards a region of our Milky Way galaxy in the Eagle...
This new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, includes data from NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic...
The spiral galaxy NGC 3627, located about 30 million light years from Earth as seen by four NASA telescopes; inset...
This infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows N103B -- all that remains from a supernova that exploded...
This chart illustrates relative masses of super-dense cosmic objects, ranging from white dwarfs to supermassive...
The collection of red dots seen here show one of several very distant galaxy clusters discovered by combining...
Here we see two different views of the spiral galaxy, Messier 81. On the left is an image taken in blue light, while...
Asteroid 2010 TK7, the first known Earth Trojan asteroid, is circled in green, in this single frame taken by NASA...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has uncovered the coldest brown dwarf known so far green dot in very center...
In visible light, the bulk of our Milky Way galaxy stars are eclipsed behind thick clouds of galactic dust and gas....
This composite image, combining data from NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope shows the...
This map illustrates the numerous star-forming clouds, called cold cores, that European Space Agency Planck observed...
This artist concept illustrates the new view of the Milky Way. The galaxy two major arms can be seen attached to the...
This artist animation illustrates the universe early years, from its explosive formation to its dark ages to its...
The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) instrument will be placed in the Hubble Space Telescope during Service Mission...