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Milky Way Galactic Center from Spitzer Telescope
Milky Way Galactic Center from Spitzer Telescope

Spitzer Space Telescope wide-field image of the galactic center of the Milky Way at a wavelength intermediate between those of…

1a. Milky Way Galaxy Black Hole Circumnuclear Ring – SOFIA
1a. Milky Way Galaxy Black Hole Circumnuclear Ring – SOFIA

SOFIA/FORCAST mid-infrared image of the Milky Way Galaxy’s nucleus showing the Circumnuclear Ring (CNR) of gas and dust clouds orbiting…

1b. Milky Way Galaxy Black Hole Circumnuclear Ring – HST
1b. Milky Way Galaxy Black Hole Circumnuclear Ring – HST

Milky Way Galaxy Black Hole Circumnuclear Ring – HST

2a. Milky Way’s Quintuple Star Cluster – SOFIA / FORCAST
2a. Milky Way’s Quintuple Star Cluster – SOFIA / FORCAST

SOFIA/FORCAST mid-infrared image of a region including the Quintuple Cluster (QC), a group of young stars near the left margin…

Kepler Planet Candidates, January 2013
Kepler Planet Candidates, January 2013

Since the last Kepler catalog was released in February 2012, the number of candidates discovered in the Kepler data has…

Robonaut Operates Task Board in Space
Robonaut Operates Task Board in Space

In the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory, Robonaut 2 is pictured on Jan. 2, during a round of testing for…

2,740 Kepler Planet Candidates, a Family Portrait Poster
2,740 Kepler Planet Candidates, a Family Portrait Poster

2,740 Kepler Planet Candidates, a Family Portrait Poster

Solar Eruption
Solar Eruption

A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on Dec. 31, 2012, twisting and turning. Magnetic forces drove the…

Snow-Covered Desert
Snow-Covered Desert

Snow-covered deserts are rare, but that’s exactly what the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite observed as…

Erupting Fissure at Tolbachik
Erupting Fissure at Tolbachik

After more than a month of eruption, lava continues to flow from Tolbachik, one of many active volcanoes on Russia’s…