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Janus peeks out from beneath the ringplane, partially lit here by reflected light from Saturn. A couple of craters...
This infrared portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud, taken by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals the stars and...
An amazing edge-on view of a spiral galaxy 55 million light years from Earth has been captured by the Hubble Space...
This artist concept is of the one-million-year-old star system called UX Tau A, approximately 450 light-years away....
Like a proud peacock displaying its tail, Enceladus shows off its beautiful plume to NASA Cassini spacecraft...
This artist concept based on data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, depicts a quadruple-star system called HD...
In visible light, the bulk of our Milky Way galaxy stars are eclipsed behind thick clouds of galactic dust and gas....
At least four distinct plumes of water ice spew out from the south polar region of Saturn moon Enceladus in this...
The image from NASA Hubble Telescope shows spiral arms and dust clouds in the nearby Whirlpool galaxy. Visible...
Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet...
This movie from NASA’s SDO shows a solar flare — the bright light on the left side of the sun — on July 8, 2014. An...
This composite image, combining data from NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope shows the...
A dragon-shaped cloud of dust seems to fly out from a bright explosion in this infrared light image from NASA...
This image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows the galaxy NGC 1291, located about 33 million light-years away...
Astronomers have discovered nearly 300 galaxy clusters and groups, including almost 100 located 8 to 10 billion...
This composite image shows one of the clusters, NGC 2024, which is found in the center of the so-called Flame Nebula...
This artist concept shows NASA Dawn spacecraft arriving at the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn travels through space using...
This visible light/infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows a swirling landscape of stars known as the...
Sandwiched between a crater nearly 4 kilometer across and a much larger and older crater over 15-kilometers in...
This artist animation illustrates the universe early years, from its explosive formation to its dark ages to its...
This false-color image shows a circular indentation in a flat-topped rock surface. Around the edge of the hole is a...
ISS030-E-099324 (22 Feb. 2012) --- City lights of Dubai, United Arab Emirates are featured in this image...
The areas where high-energy X-rays were detected by NASA's NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) from the...
In April 2012, waves in Earth’s “airglow” spread across the nighttime skies of northern Texas like ripples in a...