![]() sig13-017a 11.14.13 Two Galaxies Masquerading as OneWhat might look like a colossal jet shooting away from a galaxy turns out to be an illusion. New data from the Nation... view image |
![]() ssc2010-09a 10.27.10 Extragalactic Space BallsFor the first time, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected little spheres of carbon, called buckyballs, in a gal... view image |
![]() ssc2009-14a 07.23.09 Coiled Creature of the NightThe galaxy NGC 1097 is located 50 million light-years away. It is spiral-shaped with long, spindly arms of stars. The... view image |
![]() ssc2009-06a 03.16.09 Galaxies Collide to Create Hot, Huge GalaxyThis image of a pair of colliding galaxies called NGC 6240 shows them in a rare, short-lived phase of their evolution... view image |
![]() sig06-019 07.24.06 Black Hole Spills Kaleidoscope of ColorThis new composite image from NASA's Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes shows a giant jet of particles that... view image |
![]() ssc2005-17a 08.03.05 Gorilla Black Hole in the MistThis false-color image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a distant galaxy (yellow) that houses a quasar, a su... view image |