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Image release August 19, 2010 An international team of astronomers using gravitational lensing observations from the...
This image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows NGC 6744, one of the galaxies most similar to our Milky Way in...
NASA image release April 12, 2011 Astronomers have uncovered one of the youngest galaxies in the distant universe,...
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscope Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has identified a candidate pulsar in Andromeda -- the...
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer photographed this ultraviolet color blowup of the Groth Deep Image on June 22 and...
This image displays a galaxy known as ESO 486-21 (with several other background galaxies and foreground stars...
Located some 25 million light-years away, this new Hubble image shows spiral galaxy ESO 373-8. Together with at...
There are nearly 200 galaxies within the marked circles in this image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. These are...
Maffei 2 is the poster child for an infrared galaxy that is almost invisible to optical telescopes. But this...
So it is Halloween, the day of the dead. And to celebrate this chilling holiday, we are taking you on a tour of our...
This artist impression shows the tarburst galaxy HFLS3. The galaxy appears as little more than a faint, red smudge...
Galaxy NGC 4579 was captured by the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxy Survey, or Sings, Legacy project using the...
This frame from a simulation shows the merging of two massive galaxies. The merging galaxies are split into two...
The galaxy NGC 4395 is shown here in infrared light, captured by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. This dwarf galaxy is...
Release Date: March 10, 2010 - Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path...
NGC 1448, a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus, is seen in this image combining data from the Carnegie-Irvine...
This image shows the hidden spiral arms that were discovered around the galaxy called NGC 4625 top by the...
This ultraviolet color blowup of the Groth Deep Image was taken by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer on June 22 and...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observes some of the most beautiful galaxies in our skies — spirals sparkling...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, located over 65 million light-years...
The subject of this Hubble image is NGC 5474, a dwarf galaxy located 21 million light-years away in the...
Some astronomical objects have endearing or quirky nicknames, inspired by mythology or their own appearance. Take,...
From objects as small as Newton's apple to those as large as a galaxy, no physical body is free from the stern bonds...
This infrared portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud, taken by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals the stars and...