Embryonic Stars Emerge from Interstellar "Eggs"

NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate the International Year of Astronomy

Backward Black Hole Shoots Powerful Jets (Artist's Concept)

Clumps of Cold Stuff Across the Sky

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

Supernova Dust Factory in M74

Host to 'Hot Jupiter'

Stellar Debris in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Bright Lights, Green City

A Journey of Light Through Space and Time

Journey to a Star Rich with Planets (Artist Concept)

NASA Radar Images Asteroid 2007 PA8

Stellar 'Incubators' Seen Cooking up Stars

NuSTAR's Improved View

The 'van Gogh' of the Infrared Sky

Distant Galaxy Bursts with Stars

Quartz-like Crystals Found in Planetary Disks

WISE Beholds a Pair of Dancing Galaxies

Sombrero Galaxy Not So Flat After All

Cassiopeia A: Death Becomes Her

Blobs House Twin Stars

Echoes of a Stellar Ending

Cool Andromeda

Stellar Storm of Infrared Light

Messier 101

Ring of Stellar Death

Building a Buckyball Particle in Space (Artist Concept)

Dragonfish Coming At You in Infrared

How to Pluck a Spectrum from a Planet

Groth Deep Image

Finding Forsterite Around a Developing Star

Forecasting Weather on Distant Worlds (Artist Concept)

Diverse Group of Galaxy Types, NGC 3190 Field

N44C nebula

Lone Blazar

Jiggling Soccer-Ball Molecules in Space

Bent Galactic Jets

Galactic Train Wrecks

Highway to the Danger Zone (Artist Concept)

NGC 6744 -- A Sibling of the Milky Way

Antennae

WISE's View of a Wispy Cloud

Dusty Reflections in the Scorpion's Claws

Dusty Beginnings of a Star

'Ghost of Mirach' Rears its Spooky Head

WISE Peers into the Stellar Darkness

North America Nebula in Different Lights

Galaxies Burn Bright Like High-Wattage 'Light Bulbs'

Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial Fireworks

Earth-class Planets Line Up

NASA's Galaxy Mission Celebrates Sixth Anniversary