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This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is of a diverse group of galaxy types. NGC 3190 is a...
During its flyby of Mercury, on January 14, 2008 NASA MESSENGER spacecraft acquired the first high-resolution...
This graphic demonstrates the hiss-like radio noise generated by electrons moving along magnetic field lines from...
The Ghost of Mirach galaxy is shown in visible light on the left, and in ultraviolet as seen by NASA Galaxy...
This image shows the hidden spiral arms that were discovered around the galaxy called NGC 4625 top by the...
This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Astronomers observed...
This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows the interacting pair NGC 1097, a barred spiral...
The unique ultraviolet vision of NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer revealed, for the first time, dwarf galaxies forming...
NASA Cassini spacecraft has spotted a glowing patch of ultraviolet light near Saturn north pole that marks the...
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer was launched on April 28, 2003. Its mission is to study the shape, brightness, size...
This 3-D video can be seen with red and cyan 3-D paper glasses. Launched ten years ago, on Oct. 25, 2006, the twin...
This profile perspective of an active region revealed above it (June 24-25, 2018). Charged particles spinning along...
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A montage of Cassini images, taken in four different regions of the spectrum from ultraviolet to near-infrared,...
This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is of the planetary nebula NGC 7293 also known as the...
The primary payload for Space Shuttle Mission STS-35, launched December 2, 1990, was the ASTRO-1 Observatory....
The primary objective of the STS-35 mission was round the clock observation of the celestial sphere in ultraviolet...
This STS-80 onboard photograph shows the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer-Shuttle...
Scientists have recently gathered some of the strongest evidence to date to explain what makes the sun's outer...
Hinode (Sunrise), formerly known as Solar-B before reaching orbit, was launched from the Uchinoura Space Center in...
Hinode (Sunrise), formerly known as Solar-B before reaching orbit, was launched from the Uchinoura Space Center in...
Hinode (Sunrise), formerly known as Solar-B before reaching orbit, was launched from the Uchinoura Space Center in...