Faint Neighbors
A tiny brown dwarf glows next to its stellar companion, Gliese 229, in this false-color image from Hubble Space Telescope.…
Running Interference
This artist’s concept depicts the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer, an array of telescopes under development in New Mexico. When completed,…
Dropping In
A probe dropped through Jupiter’s atmosphere in December of 1995, measuring the atmosphere’s temperature, pressure, and composition. Part of the…
Space (Shuttle) Telescope
A set of telescopes stares into space from the cargo bay of space shuttle Columbia in December 1990. The telescopes…
Spectacular Crab
Strands of gas and dust form the spectacular Crab Nebula, the remnant of a star that exploded almost a millennium…
Blowing Bubbles
Giant bubbles of hot gas erupt from the core of the Milky Way galaxy in this artist’s concept. The galaxy’s…
Skyfall
The stars appear to fall from the sky during the Leonid meteor shower of 1833, as depicted in this contemporary…
Bread Crumbs
The star system V664 Cassiopeia is leaving “bread crumbs” as it races through the galaxy: a trail of gas and…
Galactic Hub
Stellar nurseries, massive stars, and rippling clouds of gas highlight this multi-wavelength view of the Milky Way galaxy’s turbulent heart.…
Stellar Sparkler
The globular star cluster M22 sparkles brilliantly in these two views. The image at left shows the entire cluster, revealing…