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This artist concept is of Z Camelopardalis Z Cam, a stellar system featuring a collapsed, dead star, or white dwarf,...
iss063e088344 (Sept. 15, 2020) --- Like two galaxies nearing each other, this nighttime shot from the International...
This image obtained by NASA Cassini spacecraft of the outer edge of Saturn?s B ring, reveals the combined effects of...
The Kepler space telescope is done with its work collecting astounding science data showing there are more planets...
The International Space Station’s suite of specialized instruments scans into the galaxy and beyond-- revealing...
Credit: Mt Wilson/Palomar Observatories - NGC 224 The Great Galaxy, in Andromeda, type Sb. Shows south preceding...
Discovered by British astronomer William Herschel over 200 years ago, NGC 2500 lies about 30 million light-years...
Panta rhei is a simplified version of the famous Greek philosopher Heraclitus' teachings. It basically means,...
Tidal disruption event Every galaxy has a black hole at its center. Usually they are quiet, without gas accretions,...
In the last century, humans realized that space is filled with types of light we can’t see – from infrared signals...
The mission insignia for NASA's STS-31 mission features the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in its observing...
Chandra X-Ray Observatory provided this composite X-ray (blue and green) and optical (red) image of the active...
Milky way - This image of the center of our galaxy was produced from observtons made by the Infrared Astronomical...
Top: An illustration of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, in orbit. The unique school...
This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most — it hosts a megamaser. Megamasers are...
Caption: Artist's view of night sky from a hypothetical planet within a young Milky Way-like galaxy 10 billion years...
This is an artist's impression of supernova 1993J, an exploding star in the galaxy M81 whose light reached us 21...
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured for the first time snapshots of fledging white dwarf...
One of the most prolific birthing grounds in our Milky Way galaxy, a nebula called RCW 49, is exposed in superb...
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) has made a sturning, high-energy panorama of the central regions of our Milky...
This image, courtesy of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), captures the glow...
This photograph was taken during the integration of the Astro-1 mission payloads at the Kennedy Space Center on...
Most galaxies possess a majestic spiral or elliptical structure. About a quarter of galaxies, though, defy such...
This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the...