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NASAā€™s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation...
Webb Captures the Cartwheel Galaxy
This landscape of ā€œmountainsā€ and ā€œvalleysā€ speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region...
Webb Reveals the Carina Nebula
Our Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with dust in this all-sky map from Planck, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission...
Polarized Dust Lights Up Milky Way
A festive portrait of our Milky Way galaxy shows a mishmash of gas, charged particles, and several types of dust....
A Milky Way 'Mixer' Amongst the Stars
The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring...
Revealing the Milky Way's Center
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) observed magnetic fields showin in this composite image of Centaurus A. They're shown...
Centaurus A
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe ā€“ among the most colorful deep...
Hubble Ultra Deep Field
The magnificent spiral arms of the nearby galaxy Messier 81 are highlighted in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope....
An Infrared View of the M81 Galaxy
This panorama provides an unprecedented X-ray view above and below the center of the Milky Way. This new survey builds...
Galactic Center Panorama in X-ray and Radio
Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, scientists discovered a gigantic, mysterious structure in our galaxy. This feature looks...
Fermi Discovers Giant Gamma-ray Bubbles
The immense Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 or simply M31, is captured in this image from NASA's Wide-field...
WISE Studies Our Neighbor Andromeda
This chillingly haunted galaxy mysteriously stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang! It became a...
Galactic Graveyard ā€“ "Galaxy of Horrors" poster (English)
Ā”Esta galaxia escalofriantemente encantada dejĆ³ de crear estrellas, de manera misteriosa, solo unos pocos miles de millones de aƱos tras...
Cementerio GalĆ”ctico ā€“ "Galaxy of Horrors" pĆ³ster (En EspaƱol)
An illustration showing a purple, side view of a barred spiral galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for...
Barred Spiral Galaxy (Side View, Purple)
An illustration showing a blue, side view of a barred spiral galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for...
Barred Spiral Galaxy (Side View, Blue)
An illustration showing a purple, front view of a barred spiral galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for...
Barred Spiral Galaxy (Front View, Purple)
An illustration showing a blue, front view of a barred spiral galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for...
Barred Spiral Galaxy (Front View, Blue)
An illustration of an orange elliptical galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for artistic purposes only.
Elliptical Galaxy (Orange)
An illustration of a purple elliptical galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for artistic purposes only.
Elliptical Galaxy (Purple)
An illustration of a yellow elliptical galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for artistic purposes only.
Elliptical Galaxy (Yellow)
An illustration of an orange and yellow elliptical galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for artistic purposes only.
Elliptical Galaxy (Orange/Yellow)
An illustration showing an irregular galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for artistic purposes only.
Irregular Galaxy (Side View)
An illustration showing an irregular galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for artistic purposes only.
Irregular Galaxy (Version One)
An illustration showing an irregular galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for artistic purposes only.
Irregular Galaxy (Version Two)
An illustration showing an irregular galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for artistic purposes only.
Irregular Galaxy (Version Three)
An illustration of a blazar, or an active galactic nucleus that emits a powerful radiation jet. The colors depicted in...
Blazar
An illustration of a quasar. The colors depicted in this illustration are for artistic purposes only.
Quasar
An illustration showing the side of a purple spiral galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for artistic purposes...
Spiral Galaxy (Side View, Purple)
An illustration showing the side of a blue spiral galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for artistic purposes...
Spiral Galaxy (Side View, Blue)
A hazy range of purples makes up the base of this swirling spiral of light blue lines twirling inward toward...
Spiral Galaxy (Purple)
An illustration of a spiral galaxy. The colors depicted in this illustration are for artistic purposes only.
Spiral Galaxy (Blue)
This simulated image of part of the Andromeda galaxy highlights the high resolution, wide field of view, and unique footprint...
Simulated Image Demonstrates Roman's Future Power
This image shows the magnetic field of our Milky Way galaxy as seen by the Planck satellite, an ESA (European...
Planck Takes Magnetic Fingerprint of Our Galaxy
The blue dots in this field of galaxies, known as the COSMOS field, show galaxies that contain supermassive black holes...
A Black Hole 'Choir'
The real monster black hole is revealed in this new image from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array of colliding galaxies...
Tale of Two Black Holes
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory viewed our neighboring spiral galaxy Andromeda, also called M31, in ultraviolet light. The image was...
Swift's UV Portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy
This is a mosaic the entire sky as observed by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) as part of its...
The WISE Infrared Sky
This image shows the entire sky as seen by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's Large Area Telescope. The most prominent...
Fermi's 12-year View of the Gamma-ray Sky