Large Magellanic Cloud (Gallery Explorer)
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, is revealed in exquisite detail in this video from the Spitzer Space Telescope.
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08.07.12 Possible Nearby Exoplanet Smaller than Earth (Update)Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is an alien world just two-thirds th... |
05.21.12 Cygnus X Marks the Spot (Gallery Explorer)Over the last half century this Cygnus X has been yielding its secrets to the scrutiny of infrared observations. NASA... |
08.23.11 The Galactic Center Revisited (Gallery Explorer)Hiding behind the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius is the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, over 25,000 ligh... |
02.10.11 The North America Nebula (Gallery Explorer)Seen here in visible light, the North America Nebula strangely resembles its namesake continent. Expanding our view t... |
12.23.10 The Art of ExoplanetsWhile astronomers have identified over 500 planets around other stars, they’re all too small and distant to fill even... |
10.07.10 The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS)Today's telescopes study the sky across the electromagnetic spectrum. Each part of the spectrum tells us different th... |
07.09.10 The Dragon and the Swan (Gallery Explorer)Hidden behind a dark veil of dust in the constellation Sagittarius, a lurking dragon has been revealed by the infrare... |
06.01.10 When Worlds Collide (Showcase)When worlds collide, the result is spectacular, and astronomers think they’ve detected the aftermath of such an event... |
03.19.10 The Wise Sky (Gallery Explorer)In December of 2009, NASA launched its latest infrared telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. This satel... |
02.05.10 The Many Views of the Milky Way (Gallery Explorer)In May of 2009, the European Space Agency successfully launched the Herschel Space Observatory, a new eye for the inf... |
11.25.09 The One Ring of Saturn (Showcase)Astronomers have found One Ring to rule them all, not in the land of Mordor, but around Saturn, the Lord of the Rings... |
09.03.09 Cooking Up Cometary Crystals (Showcase)The fading light of a flaring young star has shed light on a puzzle involving crystals and comets. |
06.18.09 Orion Nebula (Gallery Explorer)Explore the dusty secrets of the Orion Nebula through Spitzer's infrared vision. |
04.08.09 A Galaxy of a Different Color (Showcase)To commemorate this International Year of Astronomy, three of NASA's flagship observatories have put a new spin on ho... |
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12.26.08 The W5 Stellar Blast Furnace (Showcase)It's a chaotic region, sculpted by the glare of one generation of massive stars that's giving rise to the next. |
10.30.08 The Milky Way Big Picture (Showcase)Two and a half billion infrared pixels are exposing our own Galaxy in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telesc... |
08.12.08 Snowflake Cluster (Gallery Explorer)A group of baby stars form a "stellar snowflake" in Spitzer's observations of a dusty region near the Cone Nebula. |
06.13.08 Echoes of a Supernova (Showcase)A supernova flash echoing through surrounding dust clouds has given astronomers a virtual time machine for studying t... |
04.15.08 Protostellar Jets (Gallery Explorer)Giant jets from baby stars blow colorful bubbles in interstellar space. Spitzer's infrared view reveals these structu... |














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