Pinwheel Looks 'Fab' in Infrared

Big Black Holes Mean Bad News for Stars (diagram)

A Twisted Star-Forming Web in the Galaxy IC 342

Gorilla Black Hole in the Mist

An Unusual Planetary System (Artist's Concept)

Galaxy Mission Completes Four Star-Studded Years in Space

Stars Brewing in Cygnus X

Lone Blazar

Planck's View of Orion

Virgo Galaxy Cluster

The Hustle and Bustle of our Solar System

Where Galactic Snakes Live

A SWIRE Picture is Worth Billions of Years

Mini Planetary System (Artist Concept)

Stellar Work of Art

SIRTF "Aliveness Test" Image

Trifid Nebula

The Cosmic Hearth

Silicates in Alien Asteroids

Weird Warm Spot on Exoplanet

A Shocking Surprise in Stephan's Quintet

WISE Eyes the Whole Sky

The Light and Dark Sides of a Distant Planet

Spitzer's First Warm Images

Cracking the Code of Faraway Worlds

Stormy Clouds of Star Birth

Zeta Ophiuchi -- Runaway Star Plowing through Space Dust

The Beginning of the End of Star Formation

Giant Star Goes Supernova, Smothered by its own Dust (Artist's Concept)

Unmasking a Hidden Glow

Star Formation in the Heart of the Swan

Globular Cluster M22

Super Starburst Galaxy

A Collage of Nearby Galaxies

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

Dark Wombs of Stars

Planck's View of the Whole Sky

M33: A Close Neighbor Reveals its True Size and Splendor (3-color composite)

Bubbly Little Star

Lining Kepler Habitable Zone Planets Up

Coiled Creature of the Night

Collecting Brown Dwarfs in the Night Sky

Cosmic Epic Unfolds in Infrared

Galactic Hearts of Glass (Artist Concept)

Starburst Galaxy NGC 3310

Edge-on Galaxy

A Cauldron of Stars at the Galaxy's Center

IC 1795

Hubble-V

The Many Infrared 'Personalities' of the Sculptor Galaxy

Coolest Orbs on the Block (Artist's Concept)