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This image of the active galaxy Centaurus A was taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer on June 7, 2003. The...
This image taken by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows in unprecedented detail the galaxy Centaurus A last big meal:...
This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is of NGC 5128 Centaurus-A. This unusual galaxy is...
NASA image release June 16, 2011 Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the...
NASA release April 1, 2010 Fermi's Large Area Telescope resolved high-energy gamma rays from an extended region...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope sees RCW 79 in the southern Milky Way, 17,200 light-years from Earth in the...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has captured a favorite observing target of amateur astronomers, Omega...
This parallelogram shaped region of dust observed by ESA Herschel Space telescope can be best described using galaxy...
ISS006-E-28016 (February 2003) --- The Coal Sack Nebula (bottom center), the Southern Cross (lower right), and the...
Inner structural features seen in this image from ESA Herschel Space Observatory are helping scientists to...
Release Date: March 10, 2010 - Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path...
NASA release April 1, 2010 The giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128, show here in visible light, hosts the radio source...
This is a photo taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory that reveals the remains of an explosion in the form of...
NASA image release May 20, 2011 To see a really cool video related to this image go here:...
One of the most prolific birthing grounds in our Milky Way galaxy, a nebula called RCW 49, is exposed in superb...
This picture, taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, shows NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus...
Most galaxies possess a majestic spiral or elliptical structure. About a quarter of galaxies, though, defy such...
NASA image release May 20, 2011 To see a really cool video related to this image go here:...
The closest star system to the Earth is the famous Alpha Centauri group. Located in the constellation of Centaurus...
Most galaxies possess a majestic spiral or elliptical structure. About a quarter of galaxies, though, defy such...
Tidal disruption event Every galaxy has a black hole at its center. Usually they are quiet, without gas accretions,...