Galactic Puffer
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI This image of the Large Magellanic Cloud resembles a galactic puffer fish in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Explore this mosaic of of 300,000 images...
View ArticleCool Cosmic Shades
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech With sparkling stars for gems, Messier 78 glows like a pair of cool cosmic shades in this image from NASA‘s Spitzer Space Telescope. Explore the greenish nebula. What other...
View ArticleInfrared Sunflowers
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SINGS Team Glowing dust lanes of this spiral galaxy resemble a sunflower in an image from NASA‘s Spitzer Space Telescope. Follow the arching red spiral arms toward the dense...
View ArticleStarry Garden of Petals and Waves
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/L. Allen (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) and the IRAC GTO Team A starry garden full of dusty petals and waves of gas fill this image of the Coronet Cluster from NASA‘s Spitzer Space...
View ArticleNew face of a supernova
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/B. Williams (NCSU) The outline of a face show the remains of the oldest documented supernova in this infrared image of RCW 86 from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and...
View ArticleTurtle and the Bird
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/H. Inami (SSC/Caltech) Merging galaxies form the shapes of a turtle and bird in this image from NASA‘s Hubble Space Telescope. Explore the image of these interacting...
View ArticleGrowing, glowing spider
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L.Townsley et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/PSU/L.Townsley et al. A glowing spider is grows inside this massive star-forming region known as the Tarantula Nebula. Explore the...
View ArticleStellar Factory
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Standing and flying birds hide in a jungle of eyes in a star-making factory known as Cygnus X in this image from NASA‘s Spitzer Space Telescope. Zoom...
View ArticleFloppy Ears
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin) An elephant with big floppy ears peers from in this cloud of cold gas and dust in an image of RCW 49 from NASA‘s Spitzer Space...
View ArticleSnaking Stars
Credit: ESA/NASA Hubble Stars swirl around the bright core of barred spiral NGC 1073 in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Zoom across the broad bar of this galaxy. What shapes or...
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