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The image from NASA Hubble Telescope shows spiral arms and dust clouds in the nearby Whirlpool galaxy. Visible...
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...
These four panels show the Whirlpool galaxy — which is actually a pair of galaxies also known as Messier 51 and NGC...
Bright green sources of high-energy X-ray light captured by NASA's NuSTAR mission are overlaid on an optical-light...
A composite image of M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, shows the majesty of its structure in a dramatic new...
The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in a new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...
The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...
This stunning new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows part of the sky in the constellation of Canes...
This image from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) shows a section of NGC 1448, a spiral galaxy located about 50...