Double the Rubble (Artist Concept)

The Case of the Disappearing Continent

Out of the Dust, A Planet is Born (Artist Concept)

Cosmic Fountain of Crystal Rain

Quasar Drenched in Water Vapor

Embedded Outflows from Herbig-Haro 46/47

Why Are Galaxies So Smooth?

Weird Warm Spot on Exoplanet

Spitzer Reveals Stellar 'Family Tree'

Super-Venus (Artist Concept)

An Audience Favorite Nebula

A Twisted Star-Forming Web in the Galaxy IC 342

Seeing Stars in Serpens

Tycho's Supernova Remnant

Herschel's Three-Color View of Asteroid Apophis

Sombrero Galaxy Not So Flat After All

The Cosmic Hearth

Clumps of Cold Stuff Across the Sky

Planck's View of the Whole Sky

Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann I

Star-Studded Strings around Cocoon Nebula

Silicate Crystal Formation in the Disk of an Erupting Star

Baby Galaxies in the Adult Universe

Hubble-V

Thackeray's Globules

Globular Cluster NGC 1851 in the Southern Constellation Columba

Circle of Ashes

Embryonic Stars Emerge from Interstellar "Eggs"

Menkhib and the California Nebula

Ready for the Cosmic Ball

Making a Spectacle of Star Formation in Orion

Hot, Carbon-Rich Planet (Artist Concept)

Chasing Chickens in the Lambda Centauri Nebula

Stars Spring up Out of the Darkness (Artist Concept)

Ultraviolet Extensions

NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate the International Year of Astronomy

White Dwarf Stars

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

Orion Nebula and Bow Shock

Coma cluster of galaxies

Herschel's Cool Universe (Artist's Concept)

A Glimpse of the Milky Way

A Glimmer in the Eye of WISE

Distant Galaxy Bursts with Stars

Scenarios for the Evolution of Asteroid Belts

Backwards Spiral Galaxy

Bubbles Within Bubbles

Young Stars Emerge from Orion's Head

Unmasking a Hidden Glow

The Beginning of the End of Star Formation

Shrouded Starburst