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Atlas Image mosaic, covering 7 x 7 on the sky of the interacting galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, better known as the...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope combined to make this image of a pair of colliding galaxies...
This image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows M33, the Triangulum Galaxy, is a perennial favorite of amateur...
Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a super massive black hole in the core of the elliptical...
Galaxy Evolution Explorer observation of Stephan's Quintet and the nearby galaxy NGC 7331. Blue represents far...
This shining disk of a spiral galaxy sits approximately 25 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation...
This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a peculiar galaxy known as NGC 1487, lying about 30...
The galaxy cluster called MOO J1142+1527 can be seen here as it existed when light left it 8.5 billion years ago....
This artist's animation shows a typical young galaxy, teeming with hot, newborn stars and exploding supernovas. The...
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of a concentration of stars within the globular cluster NGC 6752. Hidden...
In 1900, astronomer Joseph Lunt made a discovery: Peering through a telescope at Cape Town Observatory, the...
The nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 is a hotbed of vigorous star birth activity, which blows huge bubbles that riddle...
The bulk of a galaxy called Messier 82 M82, or the Cigar galaxy, is seen in visible-light data captured by the...
This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows infrared light from the Sunflower galaxy, otherwise known as...
The Sculptor galaxy, or NGC 253, is seen in a rainbow of infrared colors in this mosaic by NASA Wide-field Infrared...
NGC 6090 is a beautiful pair of spiral galaxies with an overlapping central region and two long tidal tails formed...
This image from NASA Wide-Field Infrared Explorer features two stunning galaxies engaged in an intergalactic dance....
This image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows the galaxy NGC 1291, located about 33 million light-years away...
In celebration of the 27th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1990, astronomers...
This artist concept shows a supermassive black hole at the center of a remote galaxy digesting the remnants of a star.
Computer simulations of the collision between NGC 6872 and IC 4970 reproduce the basic features of the galaxies as...
On a clear evening in April of 1789, the renowned astronomer William Herschel continued his unrelenting survey of...
Astronomers have for the first time caught a glimpse of the earliest stages of massive galaxy construction. The...
Time is running out for the galaxy NGC 3801, seen in this composite image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer and...