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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On Complex 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers wrap protective...
Most galaxies possess a majestic spiral or elliptical structure. About a quarter of galaxies, though, defy such...
In 1986, NASA introduced a Shuttle-borne ultraviolet observatory called Astro. The Astro Observatory was designed to...
This image, taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the...
A NASA sounding rocket experiment has detected a surprising surplus of infrared light in the dark space between...
Some of the first images from NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of...
NASA's SPHEREx mission will create the first all-sky spectroscopic survey in the near-infrared, detecting hundreds...
This artist's concept illustrates one possible answer to the puzzle of the "giant galactic blobs." These blobs...
NGC 3603 is a bustling region of star birth in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, about 20,000...
In the center of this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 —...
NASA's SPHEREx mission will use these filters to conduct spectroscopy, a technique that lets scientists measure...
This Chandra image shows the central regions of two colliding galaxies known collectively as the Antennae...
Peering deep into the early Universe, this picturesque parallel field observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...
A contingent of young stars and star-forming gas clouds is sticking out of one of the Milky Way's spiral arms like a...
This picture, taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, shows NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has provisionally detected the faint afterglow of the explosive merger of two neutron...
NASA image release June 10, 2011 Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are witnessing the unprecedented...
NASA image release January 10, 2011 In this image by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an unusual, ghostly green blob...
The gravitational field surrounding this massive cluster of galaxies, Abell 68, acts as a natural lens in space to...
The gravitational field surrounding this massive cluster of galaxies, Abell 68, acts as a natural lens in space to...
Stars which are 8 times or more massive than our Sun end their lives in a most spectacular way; they go supernova. A...
NGC 7293, better known as the Helix nebula, displays its ultraviolet glow courtesy of NASA GALEX. The Helix is the...
The Blue Ring Nebula is thought to be the product of two stars merging into one. The collision of the bodies ejected...
This image from NASA Spitzer and GALEX shows the Helix nebula, a dying star throwing a cosmic tantrum. In death, the...