Is There Anybody Home?

Unwrapping the Pillars

A Stellar Ripple

The Evolution of a Planet-Forming Disk (Artist's Concept Animation)

Trigger-Happy Cloud

Mapping the Infrared Universe: Part 1

GALEX 1st Light Near and Far Ultraviolet -100

Cosmic Rosebud

Two Models of Black Hole Spin (Artist's Concept)

Taken Under the 'Wing' of the Small Magellanic Cloud

WISE Catches a Runaway Star in Flames

The Universe Comes into Sharper Focus

Stellar Debris in the Large Magellanic Cloud

How to Find a Planetary Hot Spot

Asteroid Caught Marching Across Tadpole Nebula

Ghost Head Nebula

Blazing Black Holes Spotted in Spiral Beauty

A Glimmer in the Eye of WISE

Messier 101

Betelgeuse's Enigmatic Environment

Dark Globule in IC 1396 (IRAC)

Older Galaxy Pair Has Surprisingly Youthful Glow

Galaxy NGC 55

Portrait of Distant Planets

Cosmic Swirly Straws Feed Galaxy

Dusty Beginnings of a Star

Sculptor Galaxy Shines with X-rays

Kepler-11 Planetary System (Artist Concept)

Herschel's Cool Universe (Artist's Concept)

Spitzer Space Telescope's View of Galaxy Messier 101

The Rocky World of Young Planetary Systems (Artist Concept)

WISE Peers into the Stellar Darkness

Tendrils of Cold Dust

Highway to the Danger Zone (Artist Concept)

Astronomers Uncover One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe

Massive Star Makes Waves

Cepheids as Cosmology Tools

'Peony Nebula' Star Settles for Silver Medal

Spitzer's Sunflower Galaxy

Star Cluster Overshadowed by Infrared Objects

Two Brown Dwarfs in Our Backyard

The Swirling Arms of the M100 Galaxy

Towering Infernos

Dwarf Galaxy Spotted

It's Not a Bird or a Plane

Beyond the Veil

Amazing Andromeda in Red

An Unusual Planetary System (Artist's Concept)

Cosmic Ocean Dweller

First Look at Milky Way's Monster in High-Energy X-ray Light

Mira Soars Through the Sky