Portrait of a Galaxy's Life

Is There Anybody Home?

Climbing the Cosmic Distance Ladder (Artist's Concept)

In the Grip of the Scorpion's Claw

Planets Under a Red Sun (Artist's Concept)

Seeing Stars in Serpens

Exotic Atmospheres (Artist Concept)

Analyzing the Pieces of a Warped Galaxy

A Different View of the Flame Nebula

NGC 7293, the Helix Nebula

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

Edge-on Galaxy

Great Observatories' Unique Views of the Milky Way

Asteroid Caught Marching Across Tadpole Nebula

Classic Galaxy with Glamour

Slender Galaxy with Robust Black Hole

Before the Smashup (Artist's Concept)

Cosmic Ocean Dweller

M81 Galaxy is Pretty in Pink

Dark Globule in IC 1396 (IRAC)

Silicates in Alien Asteroids

Exotic World Blisters Under the Sun (Artist Concept)

Super Earth Reveals Itself to Spitzer

Where Planets Take up Residence

Tiny Particles, So Far Away

Where Kepler Sees

NASA's SOFIA Captures Images of the Planetary Nebula M2-9

Galactic Metropolis

Cauldron of Light

Zeta Ophiuchi -- Runaway Star Plowing through Space Dust

Spider Web of Stars in IC 342A

Stellar 'Incubators' Seen Cooking up Stars

Pinwheel Looks 'Fab' in Infrared

Heart and Soul

NuSTAR's First View of High-Energy X-ray Universe

Signature of a Carbon-Rich Planet

A Slice of Orion

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

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

WISE Catches a Runaway Star in Flames

First Map of Alien World (animation)

Tendrils of Cold Dust

Making a Spectacle of Star Formation in Orion

Jabbah and Associates

Highway to the Danger Zone (Artist Concept)

Bursting with Stars and Black Holes (Artist Concept)

Peculiar Features in Patterns of Ancient Light

Tour of Planet with Extreme Temperature Swings

NGC 5128 (Centaurus-A)

Pink Pleiades

A Cosmic Wreath