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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope recently captured these images of the star Vega, located 25 light years away in the...
This artist's concept appeared on the Feb. 23, 2017 cover of the journal Nature announcing that the TRAPPIST-1 star,...
The James Webb Space Telescope's "spine" or backplane arrived on Aug. 25 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight...
The Cat's Paw Nebula, imaged here by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lies inside the Milky Way Galaxy and is located...
The Cat's Paw Nebula, imaged here by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, is a star-forming region inside the Milky Way...
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows what astronomers are referring to as a "snake" (upper...
This deepest-ever view of the universe unveils myriad galaxies back to the begirning of time. Several hundred,...
Anchored on the end of orbiter Endeavour's remote manipulator system arm, astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman (foreground)...
This is the James Webb Space Telescope ETU (engineering test unit) primary mirror segment returning to the cleanroom...
This image composite compares the well-known visible-light picture of the glowing Trifid Nebula (left panel) with...
This artist's concept illustrates one possible answer to the puzzle of the "giant galactic blobs." These blobs...
This is an artist’s impression of a white dwarf (burned-out) star accreting rocky debris left behind by the star’s...
This image composite shows a giant galactic blob (red) and the three merging galaxies NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope...
This artist's concept illustrates how the brightness of outbursting star FU Orionis has been slowly fading since its...
Held in appendage deploy position, the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) high gain antenna (HGA) has been released...
This illustration shows a cool star, called W1906+40, marked by a raging storm near one of its poles. The storm is...
For the first time, two space-based telescopes have teamed up with ground-based observatories to observe a...
This illustration shows the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets as they might look as viewed from Earth using a fictional,...
An image of the galaxy Arp299B, which is undergoing a merging process with Arp299A (the galaxy to the left),...
May 2017 marked the end of an era for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center because the James Webb Space Telescope has...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has provisionally detected the faint afterglow of the explosive merger of two neutron...
This image shows an artist's impression of the 10 hot Jupiter exoplanets studied using the Hubble and Spitzer space...
Hidden behind a shroud of dust in the constellation Cygnus is a stellar nursery called DR21, which is giving birth...
Infant stars are glowing gloriously in this image of the Serpens star-forming region, captured by NASA Spitzer Space...