Featured Image: Hunting for Past Fireworks
This stunning image reveals a face-on spiral galaxy rich with the fireworks of stellar birth and death.
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Featured Image: Modeling a Cosmic Horseshoe
These beautiful Hubble images reveal the Cosmic Horseshoe, an example of strong gravitational lensing.
Featured Image: A Choice of Projections
What’s the best way to represent the spherical sky on a flat surface? This unique octahedron-based view has its advantages.
Featured Image: A Birthplace for Massive Stars
This infrared, false-color image reveals W51A, a giant ionized bubble in which very young, massive stars are just beginning to form.
Featured Image: How Gas Affects the Structure of Galaxies
These beautiful images from a simulation of a Milky-Way-like galaxy capture how gas affects a galaxy’s formation and evolution over time.
Featured Image: Tracking Motions of Local Galaxies
Gaia measurements of thousands of stars are helping us to pin down the motions (and future collisions!) of the galaxies around us.
Featured Image: Detail in the Birth Environments of Planets
What do we know about the detailed structures of protoplanetary disks, the disks of gas and dust in which planets are born?
Featured Image: Star Formation in a Long Tail
This stunning image shows a long gas tail stripped from the center of a speeding spiral galaxy in the Coma Cluster.
Featured Image: A Supernova Remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud
This dramatic image reveals N49, the brightest supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Featured Image: Celebrating Planetary Missions Past, Present, and Future
Today we’re celebrating Mars Insight’s successful touchdown, looking back at this haunting image from Spirit, and looking forward to the proposed Dragonfly Titan lander.