Hiding Out Behind the Milky Way

Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star

Sombrero Galaxy Not So Flat After All

Worlds on the Edge (Artist's Concept)

NASA's Great Observatories Witness a Galactic Spectacle

All-sky Image of Molecular Gas and Three Molecular Cloud Complexes seen by Planck

Sedna Orbit Animation

Stellar 'Incubators' Seen Cooking up Stars

In the Grip of the Scorpion's Claw

A Spiral Galaxy is Visited by a Trojan War Hero

Supernova Dust Factory in M74

Little Galaxy Explored

M81 Galaxy is Pretty in Pink

It's Not a Bird or a Plane

Planetary Hot Spot Not Under the Glare of Star (Artist Concept)

A Twisted Star-Forming Web in the Galaxy IC 342

Charting Ingredients for Life

GALEX 1st Light Near Ultraviolet -50

A Sky Chock-Full of Black Holes

Dark Wombs of Stars

Starburst Galaxy NGC 3310

Stars Spring up Out of the Darkness (Artist Concept)

The Case of the Disappearing Continent

Scoping the Sisters

Alien Asteroid Belt Compared to our Own (Artist Concept)

Baby Picture of our Solar System

The Universe's First Fireworks

Stellar Debris in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Birth of an Earth-like Planet (Artist concept)

Trigger-Happy Cloud

Laser-Sharp Jet Splits Water

Tiny Particles, So Far Away

Journey to a Star Rich with Planets (Artist Concept)

Tendrils of Cold Dust

Stars Adorn Orion's Sword

Once an Onion, Always an Onion (Artist Concept)

Galaxy NGC 55

WISE's Last Light

Magician of a Planet Disappears to Reveal Itself

Infrared Ring around Saturn

Cosmic Alligator Eats its Way through the Sky

Kepler-62 and the Solar System

Kepler-11 Planetary System (Artist Concept)

Mapping the Infrared Universe: The Entire WISE Sky

Big Galaxy in Baby Universe

Orion's Big Head Revealed in Infrared

Planetary Family Portrait

Little Galaxies Pack a Big Punch

A Star-Bursting Filament

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

Horsehead Nebula