Spitzer Finds Clarity in the Inner Milky Way

A Celestial Shamrock

Astronomers Detect First Organic Molecule on an Exoplanet (Artist's Concept)

Twin Brown Dwarfs Wrapped in a Blanket

Where Galactic Snakes Live

Dusty Dead Star

Lone Blazar

Stars Adorn Orion's Sword

Celestial Sea of Stars

Magician of a Planet Disappears to Reveal Itself

Galaxy UGC10445

A Cosmic Wreath

Chemical Soups Around Cool Stars (Artist Concept)

Galaxy Messier 83

N44C nebula

NGC 1316

Extreme Planets (Artist Concept)

Cracking the Code of Faraway Worlds

A Star's Close Encounter

Kepler-62 and the Solar System

GALEX 1st Light Near Ultraviolet -50

A Star-Bursting Filament

Anomalous Arms

WISE Catches the Lagoon Nebula in Center of Action

Galaxy NGC 1850

A Dying Star in a Different Light

Kepler-62e (Artist Concept)

Vivid View of Tycho's Supernova Remnant

Ice from the Solar System's Edge (Artist's Concept)

Ingredients for Life (Artist's Concept)

Cosmic Fountain of Crystal Rain

Young Solar System in the Making (Artist Concept)

Young Stars in Their Baby Blanket of Dust

Tendrils of Cold Dust

Galaxies Gather at Great Distances

Kepler-20f -- An Earth-size World (Artist's Concept)

Making a Spectacle of Star Formation in Orion

Galactic City at the Edge of the Universe

Ring Beholds a Delicate Flower

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

Dusty Reflections in the Scorpion's Claws

Earth-class Planets Line Up

Maffei 1 and 2

Saturn's Infrared Ring

All That Remains of Exploded Star

Black Hole Spills Kaleidoscope of Color

Stellar Debris in the Large Magellanic Cloud

A Collage of Nearby Galaxies

Galaxy NGC5962

Peculiar Features in Patterns of Ancient Light

Prehistoric Black Hole (Artist's Concept)