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Eight Looks at the Jupiter Impact
Rising from a sea of dust and gas like a giant seahorse, the Horsehead nebula is one of the most photographed...
This infrared image, showing thermal radiation at a wavelength of 9.7 microns, was obtained by the Gemini North...
NASA Hubble Space Telescope captured this sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae: the Ring...
This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape...
A bright blue tadpole appears to swim through the inky blackness of space. Known as IRAS 20324+4057, but dubbed "the...
NASA Spitzer, Hubble and Chandra space observatories teamed up to create this multi-wavelength, false-colored view...
Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - Montage
This false-color image composite from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals hidden populations of newborn stars at...
This image depicts a vast canyon of dust and gas in the Orion Nebula from a 3-D computer model based on observations...
The dark hole seen in the green cloud at the top of this image, captured by ESA Herschel Telescope, was likely...
NGC 520 is the product of a collision between two disk galaxies that started 300 million years ago. This image is...
A rare, infrared view of a developing star and its flaring jets taken by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows us what...
NGC 6621/2 VV 247, Arp 81 is a strongly interacting pair of galaxies, seen about 100 million years after their...
NGC 6050/IC 1179 Arp 272 is a remarkable collision between two spiral galaxies, NGC 6050 and IC 1179, and is part of...
Resembling the hair in Botticelli famous portrait of the birth of Venus, an image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope...
AM 0500-620 consists of a highly symmetric spiral galaxy seen nearly face-on and partially backlit by a background...
This picture highlights a slice of Saturn largest ring. The ring red band was discovered by NASA Spitzer Space...
Peering deep inside a cluster of several hundred thousand stars, NASA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the...
NGC 454 is galaxy pair comprising a large red elliptical galaxy and an irregular gas-rich blue galaxy. This image is...
AM 1316-241 is made up of two interacting galaxies—a spiral galaxy on the left of the frame in front of an...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has captured this stunning infrared view of the famous galaxy Messier 31, also known as...
Scientists Track Perfect
This beautiful pair of interacting galaxies consists of NGC 5754, the large spiral on the right, and NGC 5752, the...