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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the Trifid Nebula reveals a stellar nursery being torn apart by a...
This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows what lies near the sword of the constellation Orion -- an active...
Red circles and arrows point to glowing thermal emission from active lava breakouts observed by the Stellar...
NASA Hubble Space Telescope captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that...
While imaging Io's night side under illumination from Jupiter-shine on Dec. 30, 2023, the Stellar Reference Unit...
1996 'STELLAR' program commencement activities. Special guest Astronaut Buzz Aldrin drops by to tour and chat....
The search for life beyond Earth starts in habitable zones, the regions around stars where conditions could...
The smudge of stars at the center of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a galaxy known as UGC 5797. UGC...
In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, NASA's Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space...
This STS-80 onboard photograph shows the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer-Shuttle...
The Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft collected this visible wavelength image of Io's night...
As NASA's Juno spacecraft flew through the narrow gap between Jupiter's radiation belts and the planet during its...
The Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft made this first-of-a-kind observation on Dec. 30, 2023,...
The smudge of stars at the center of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a galaxy known as UGC 5797. UGC...
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) has made a sturning, high-energy panorama of the central regions of our Milky...
This image composite compares the well-known visible-light picture of the glowing Trifid Nebula (left panel) with...
The open doors of the payload bay on Space Shuttle Discovery await the transfer of four of the payloads on mission...
This mission patch for mission STS-80 depicts the Space Shuttle Columbia and the two research satellites its crew...
NGC 3603 is a bustling region of star birth in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, about 20,000...
STS080-S-001 (August 1996) --- This STS-80 mission patch depicts the space shuttle Columbia and the two research...
The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains of a tremendous stellar explosion. Observers in China and...
This black-and-white visible wavelength (450-1,100 nm) image of Io's surface was taken by the Stellar Reference Unit...
In 1986, NASA introduced a Shuttle-borne ultraviolet observatory called Astro. The Astro Observatory was designed to...
This photograph was taken during the integration of the Astro-1 mission payloads at the Kennedy Space Center on...