The Extended Region Around the Planetary Nebula NGC 3242

Birth of an Earth-like Planet (Artist concept)

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

Galaxy Cluster and Giant Arc

SIRTF "Aliveness Test" Image

Disk Around a Massive Baby Star (Artist's Concept)

WISE's Last Light

A Year in the Life of an Infrared Echo

WISE Peers into the Stellar Darkness

Red Giant Plunging Through Space

NGC 300

NASA Radar Images Asteroid 2007 PA8

Rocky Ring of Debris Around Vega (Artist Concept)

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

Dark Energy and Gravity: Yin and Yang of the Universe (Artist's Concept)

Andromeda Galaxy

Dissecting the Wake of a Supernova Explosion

Extragalactic Space Balls (Artist Concept)

Young Stars Emerge from Orion's Head

How to Measure the Spin of a Black Hole (Artist's Concept)

Water Around a Carbon Star

Cracking the Code of Faraway Worlds

A Spiral Galaxy is Visited by a Trojan War Hero

WISE 'First-Light' Image

Worlds on the Edge (Artist's Concept)

Ghostly Ring

Celestial Cities and the Roads That Connect Them

Where Planets Take up Residence

Exposing Black Holes Disguised in Dust

Mysterious Blob Galaxies Revealed

Mysterious Object He2-90

The Hidden Galaxy

Black Hole Simulation

Saturn Family Tour

Irregular Dwarf Galaxy IC 1613

Cosmic Cocoon

Speed-Demon Star Creates a Shock

The Case of the Disappearing Continent

Kepler's Supernova Remnant: A View from Spitzer Space Telescope

GALEX Distributes Local Galactic Treasures at AAS

Our Neighbor Andromeda

Dark Wombs of Stars

Ant Nebula

Blowin' in the Stellar Wind

How to Pluck a Spectrum from a Planet

Quartz-like Crystals Found in Planetary Disks

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

Milky Way Dust at Different Scales

Unwrapping the Pillars

Nursery of Giants

Galaxies of all Shapes Host Black Holes (Artist Concept)