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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Orbital Sciences' L-1011 aircraft waits for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft...
Despite being less famous than their elliptical and spiral galactic cousins, irregular dwarf galaxies, such as the...
This dramatic image shows the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s view of dwarf galaxy known as NGC 1140, which lies...
This dramatic image shows the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s view of dwarf galaxy known as NGC 1140, which lies...
With its helical appearance resembling a snail’s shell, this reflection nebula seems to spiral out from a luminous...
One of the most prolific birthing grounds in our Milky Way galaxy, a nebula called RCW 49, is exposed in superb...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope doesn’t usually get much assistance from its celestial subjects — but to take...
This artist's concept illustrates one possible answer to the puzzle of the "giant galactic blobs." These blobs...
NASA's New Horizons team trained mobile telescopes on an unnamed star (circled) from a remote area of Argentina on...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captures a lumpy bubble of hot gas rising from a cauldron of glowing matter in...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, has captured in stunning...
This sprinkle of cosmic glitter is a blue compact dwarf galaxy known as Markarian 209. Galaxies of this type are...
NASA image release Feb. 17, 2011 To see a hd vidoe of this sprial galaxy go to:...
This image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and shows a...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured these infrared images of a nearby spiral galaxy that resembles our own...
This image of the nearby edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 55 was taken by Galaxy Evolution Explorer on September 14, 2003,...
This illustration shows what a debris cloud around the young star called HD 166191 might look like up close....
ISS020-E-029752 (10 Aug. 2009) --- Expedition 20 crew members pose in "star-burst" formation for an in-flight...
ISS020-E-008898 (14 June 2009) --- The six-person Expedition 20 crew poses in "star-burst" formation for an...
This three-color image of galaxy M101 was taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer on June 20, 2003. The far...
ISS030-E-007397 (24 Nov. 2011) --- This is a panoramic view of Earth's atmospheric limb photographed by an...
ISS020-E-029759 (10 Aug. 2009) --- Expedition 20 crew members give a “thumbs-up” signal as they pose in "star-burst"...
K2-33b, shown in this illustration, is one of the youngest exoplanets detected to date using NASA Kepler Space...