Quasar Drenched in Water Vapor

Echoes of a Stellar Ending

Does 'Pacman' Have Teeth?

Galaxies of all Shapes Host Black Holes (Artist Concept)

A Sky Chock-Full of Black Holes

An Unwelcome Place for New Stars (artist concept)

An Explosion of Infrared Color

An Unexpected Scattering of Light

How to Map a Very Faraway Planet (animation)

Kepler-69 and the Solar System

Galaxy NGC 300

Coronet: A Star-Formation Neighbor

Galaxy NGC 3079

Ultraviolet Extensions

Spectrum from Faint Galaxy IRAS F00183-7111

Climbing the Cosmic Distance Ladder (Artist's Concept)

Andromeda is So Hot 'n' Cold

Planetary Building Blocks Found in Surprising Place

Cracking the Code of Faraway Worlds

Groth Deep Image

Magician of a Planet Disappears to Reveal Itself

WISE Finds a Galactic Metropolis

Before the Smashup (Artist's Concept)

"No Organics" Zone Circles Pinwheel

Fire within the Antennae Galaxies

Collecting Brown Dwarfs in the Night Sky

Dead Star Warps Light of Red Star (Artist's Animation)

Plentiful Planetary System (Artist Concept)

An Audience Favorite Nebula

Signature of a Carbon-Rich Planet

The Extended Region Around the Planetary Nebula NGC 3242

Asteroid Caught Marching Across Tadpole Nebula

NASA's Spitzer Finds Water Vapor on Hot, Alien Planet (Artist's Concept)

A Star's Close Encounter

WISE's View of a Wispy Cloud

Anomalous Arms

Our Chaotic Neighbor

Whirlpool Galaxy

Dusty Reflections in the Scorpion's Claws

GALEX 1st Light Far Ultraviolet

Cauldron of Light

The Hidden Galaxy

Stellar Snowflake Cluster

Cosmic Alligator Eats its Way through the Sky

Globular Cluster NGC 1851 in the Southern Constellation Columba

Supersized Disk (Artist's Concept)

Analyzing the Pieces of a Warped Galaxy

Cosmic Cocoon

NGC 1316

The Invisible Dragon

Extragalactic Space Balls (Artist Concept)