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

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

Milky Way Galaxy Black Hole Circumnuclear Ring – HST

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

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

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

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

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

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