Riding a Trail of Debris

Comet 'Bites the Dust' Around Dead Star (Artist Concept)

Great Observatories Present Rainbow of a Galaxy

Flaring Black Hole (Artist's Concept)

A Planet as Big as its Star

A Barred SpiralGalaxy, and the Small Elliptical Companion Galaxy NGC 1097A

Tiny Particles, So Far Away

Dark Wombs of Stars

Kepler-69 and the Solar System

Cracking the Code of Faraway Worlds

Starburst Galaxy NGC 3310

Dwarf Star Erupts in Giant Flare

Hustle and Bustle at Center of Milky Way

Little Galaxies Pack a Big Punch

Older Galaxy Pair Has Surprisingly Youthful Glow

Seeing Stars in Serpens

Massive Young Star and its Cradle

Andromeda

Ancient Galaxy Cluster Still Producing Stars

A Moon-size Line Up (Artist's Concept)

NGC 300

Spectrum from Faint Galaxy IRAS F00183-7111

A New View of the Tarantula Nebula

Ghostly Remnant of an Explosive Past

Entire Sky

Peculiar Features in Patterns of Ancient Light

Supernova Remnant in 3-D

Celestial Cities and the Roads That Connect Them

Nursery of Giants

Young Stars in Their Baby Blanket of Dust

A Shocking Surprise in Stephan's Quintet

NuSTAR's Improved View

Multi-Wavelength Views of Protostars in IC 1396

All Pillars Point to Eta

Big Black Holes Mean Bad News for Stars (diagram)

Spitzer Makes "Invisible" Visible

M33: A Close Neighbor Reveals its True Size and Splendor

Extragalactic Space Balls (Artist Concept)

The Dark Heart of the King

Infrared Ring around Saturn

NGC 1316

Stars Spring up Out of the Darkness (Artist Concept)

Life's Starting Materials Found in Dusty Disk

Undercover Jet Exposed

Sizzling Remains of a Dead Star

Cosmic Cocoon

Spitzer's Sunflower Galaxy

North America Nebula in Different Lights

Our Solar System's Cousin? (Artist Concept)

Finding Forsterite Around a Developing Star

The Rocky World of Young Planetary Systems (Artist Concept)