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iss073e0982261 (Oct. 24, 2025) --- The Milky Way spans the night sky above a yellow-green airglow that blankets the...
iss073e0516005 (Aug. 23, 2025) --- The Milky Way appears above Earth's bright atmospheric glow in this photograph...
iss074e0491096 (April 17, 2026) --- A wispy aurora australis arcs across the Indian Ocean as the Milky Way protrudes...
iss073e0982679 (Oct. 25, 2025) --- The Milky Way spans the night sky above a bright orange-yellow airglow that...
NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission celebrates its sixth anniversary studying galaxies beyond our Milky Way...
This image shows the central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4631 as seen edge-on from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory...
S66-45328 (19 July 1966) --- Ultraviolet spectra of stars in the Carina-Vela region of the southern Milky Way. These...
What are some skywatching highlights in July 2021? Venus blazes as the "Evening Star" following sunset, with a much...
iss074e0043595 (Dec. 29, 2025) --- This long-duration photograph of Earth’s horizon was taken at approximately 8:30...
The tip of the wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this new view from NASA Great Observatories....
The large bubble is an embryonic star that looks set to turn into one of the brightest stars in our Milky Way galaxy...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope sees RCW 79 in the southern Milky Way, 17,200 light-years from Earth in the...
In a global experiment in exoplanet observation, the K2 mission and Earth-based observatories on six continents will...
NASA NuSTAR has captured these first, focused views of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way...
This image shows a composite view of the Crab nebula, an iconic supernova remnant in our Milky Way galaxy, as viewed...
This composite of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 is 522,000 light-years across, making it about five times...
What are some skywatching highlights in June 2025? Saturn and Venus in the morning sky, and Mars at night. June...
This panoramic view encompasses the entire sky and reveals the distribution of galaxies beyond the Milky Way galaxy,...
Yellow balls -- which are several hundred to thousands times the size of our solar system -- are pictured here in...
This mosaic image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is located in a constellation in the southern sky,...
There something special going on in the nearby Circinus galaxy, as revealed by this image from NASA WISE telescope....
This image is a map of the portion of the sky covered by the preliminary release of WISE data. WISE surveyed the...
This image from NASA Herschel, in the constellation of Vulpecula, shows an entire assembly line of newborn stars....
W3 is an enormous stellar nursery about 6,200 light-years away in the Perseus Arm, one of the Milky Way galaxy main...