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A leggy cosmic creature comes out of hiding in this new infrared view from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer....
This image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer highlights the dust that speckles the Andromeda galaxy...
NASA Hubble and Spitzer telescopes combined to make these shape-shifting galaxies taking on the form of a giant...
This artist concept shows how a normal spiral galaxy around our local universe left might have looked back in the...
An amazing edge-on view of a spiral galaxy 55 million light years from Earth has been captured by the Hubble Space...
W3 is an enormous stellar nursery about 6,200 light-years away in the Perseus Arm, one of the Milky Way galaxy main...
Looking like a spider web swirled into a spiral, galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this...
Looking like a spider web swirled into a spiral, galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this...
This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or M101, in the constellation of Ursa Major, combines data from four of NASA...
These images from NASA GALEX and NuSTAR is of Andromeda, a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way but larger in size. It...
A brilliant burst of star formation is revealed in this image combining observations from NASA Spitzer and Hubble...
This image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is a view within the constellation Cassiopeia of...
This beautiful pair of interacting galaxies consists of NGC 5754, the large spiral on the right, and NGC 5752, the...
This plot of data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope indicates that a flat, spiral galaxy called NGC 3621 has a...
Keeping a close watch on the outer portion of Saturn B ring, NASA Cassini spacecraft records the complex inward and...
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...
This mosaic of the Andromeda spiral galaxy highlights explosive stars in its interior, and cooler, dusty stars...
Astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have spotted a dust factory 30 million light-years away in the spiral...
Astronomers using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, are helping to trace the shape of...
This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is of the interacting group of galaxies known as Stephan...
This galaxy is known as Mrk 820 and is classified as a lenticular galaxy — type S0 on the Hubble Tuning Fork. The...
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 little-known galaxy, officially named J04542829-6625280, but most often referred to as LEDA 89996, is a classic...