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This image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and shows a...
From objects as small as Newton's apple to those as large as a galaxy, no physical body is free from the stern bonds...
Much like the eclectic group of space rebels in the upcoming film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, NASA’s Hubble...
Morphologies, masses, and structures - oh, my! This beautiful clump of glowing gas, dark dust and glittering stars...
Tucked away in the small northern constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs) is the galaxy NGC 4242, shown...
The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the newest camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, has captured a spectacular...
The razor sharp eye of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) easily resolves the Sombrero galaxy, Messier 104 (M104)....
In 1900, astronomer Joseph Lunt made a discovery: Peering through a telescope at Cape Town Observatory, the...
NASA image release January 10, 2011 In this image by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an unusual, ghostly green blob...
NASA image release October 19, 2010 Though the universe is chock full of spiral-shaped galaxies, no two look exactly...
This neat little galaxy is known as NGC 4526. Its dark lanes of dust and bright diffuse glow make the galaxy appear...
This irregular dwarf galaxy's closes neighbor is 2.3 million light years away, so yeah, we're calling it...
Released to commemorate the 14th anniversary of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is the image of a galaxy...
This image provides the clearest ever view of galaxy NGC 949, which lies over 30 million light-years away in the...
NGC 3603 is a bustling region of star birth in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, about 20,000...
Chandra X-Ray Observatory took this first x-ray picture of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) on October 13, 1999. The blue...
This galaxy, known as NGC 2337, resides 25 million light-years away in the constellation of Lynx. NGC 2337 is an...
This false-color image composite from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals hidden populations of newborn stars at...
The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion of the...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, located over 65 million light-years...
NASA image release January 13, 2011 These images by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show off two dramatically...
NASA image release January 13, 2011 These images by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show off two dramatically...
This picture of the galaxy UGC 10214 was was taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which was installed...
This false-color image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals hidden populations of newborn stars at the heart...