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Asteroid 1997 QK1 is shown to be an elongated, peanut-shaped near-Earth object in this series of 28 radar images obtained…
This series of 41 radar images obtained by the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar on July 28, 2025,…
This image of the Vela Molecular Ridge was captured by SPHEREx and is part of the mission's first public data…
Infrared image showing a dense field of teal stars with faint, cloudy regions of interstellar dust, captured by NASA's SPHEREx…
This video shows SPHEREx's field of view as it scans across one section of sky inside the Large Magellanic Cloud,…
NASA's SPHEREx, which will map hundreds of millions of galaxies across the entire sky, captured one of its first exposures…
NASA's Psyche spacecraft captured multiple star and planet images in late January 2025 that include notable appearances by Mars, Jupiter,…
This mosaic of a star field was made from three images captured Dec. 4, 2024, by star tracker cameras aboard…
This animation depicts the motion of small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 as it orbits the Sun.
This series of radar images obtained by the DSN's Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, on Sept. 16, 2024,…
This series of radar images obtained by the Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, on Aug. 18, 2024, shows…
This final image captured by NASA's NEOWISE shows part of the Fornax constellation in the Southern Hemisphere. It was taken…
These seven radar observations by the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar shows the mile-wide asteroid 2011 UL21 during…
Because close approaches by asteroids the size of 2024 MK are relatively rare, JPL's planetary radar team gathered as much…
This image from NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope highlights the stars and dust clouds in the Andromeda galaxy.
The day before asteroid 2008 OS7 made its close approach with Earth on Feb. 2, 2024, this series of images…
A magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this artist's concept. The magnetar's strong, twisted magnetic field lines can…
Clouds of gas and dust in space – like Rho Ophiuchi, shown here – mostly radiate infrared light. IRAS, imaged…
Scientists have been studying the universe with infrared space telescopes for 40 years, including these NASA missions, from left: the…
This mosaic was made from first light images acquired by both of the cameras on NASA's Psyche spacecraft on Dec.…
This collage represents a selection of NASA radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 2006 HV5 on April 25, 2023, less than…
In this illustration of an ultra-luminous X-ray source, two rivers of hot gas are pulled onto the surface of a…
This collage represents NASA radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 2011 AG5 on Feb. 4, 2023, one day after its close…
This composite image of the Sun includes high-energy X-ray data from NASA's NuSTAR shown in blue; lower energy X-ray data…
A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. The stream of gas is what remains…
This infrared image of the Orion Nebula features plenty of dust but no stars. In these infrared wavelengths, it's possible…
The dusty face of the Eagle Nebula and its surroundings are revealed in this image based on data from NASA's…
The two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 produce shells of dust every eight years that look like rings, as seen in…
This graphic shows the relative size of the Sun, upper left, compared to the two stars in the system known…
This collage and animation represent NASA radar observations of near-Earth asteroid 7335 1989 JA on May 26, 2022, one day…
The Triangulum galaxy, or M33, is shown here in far-infrared and radio wavelengths of light.
The Small Magellanic Cloud is a satellite of the Milky Way, containing about 3 billion stars. This far-infrared and radio…
The Andromeda galaxy, or M31, is shown here in far-infrared and radio wavelengths of light.
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite of the Milky Way, containing about 30 billion stars.
This illustration depicts the result of a collision between two large asteroid-sized bodies. NASA's Spitzer saw a debris cloud block…
This animation shows asteroid 2022 EB5's predicted orbit around the Sun before impacting into the Earth's atmosphere on March 11,…
NuSTAR detected high-energy X-rays from the auroras near Jupiter's north and south poles.
Planet XO-3b has an internal source of heat which is caused by the squeezing of the planet's interior by the…
These images and animation represent NASA radar observations of 4660 Nereus on December 10, 2021, before the asteroid's close approach…
This diagram shows the orbit of binary asteroid Didymos around the Sun.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope imaged this cloud of gas and dust. The colors represent different wavelengths of infrared light and…
This series of images captured on Aug. 22, 2021, shows asteroid 2016 AJ193 rotate as it was observed by Goldstone's…
This figure represents the radar echo from asteroid 2021 PJ1 on Aug. 14, 2021. The horizontal axis represents the difference…
The dark spot in the bottom left corner of the image is a brown dwarf, nicknamed The Accident, which was…
Shown here are the Eagle, Omega, Triffid, and Lagoon Nebulae, imaged by NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope. These nebulae are…
A contingent of stars and star-forming clouds was found jutting out from the Milky Way's Sagittarius Arm. The inset shows…
The image shows galaxy Arp 148, captured by NASA's Spitzer and Hubble telescopes. Specially processed Spitzer data is shown inside…
The cosmic object SS 433 contains a bright source of X-ray light surrounded by two hemispheres of hot gas. SS…
Weak but nearly continuous plasma oscillation events connect stronger events in NASA's Voyager 1 Plasma Wave Subsystem data.
Images of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are overlaid on a map of the surrounding galactic…
If a planet rotates too fast it will experience bulging around its midsection, as seen in this animated illustration of…
The faster a brown dwarf spins, the narrower the different-colored atmospheric bands on it likely become, as shown in this…
On March 21, 2021, the large asteroid 2001 FO32 made a close approach with our planet, passing at a distance…
This illustration, created in March 2021, depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between…
This illustration, created in March 2021, depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between…
These images of asteroid Apophis were recorded by radio antennas at the Deep Space Network's Goldstone complex in California and…
This photo shows the zodiacal light as it appeared on March 1, 2021, in Skull Valley, Utah.
Detailed measurements of the physical properties of the seven rocky TRAPPIST-1 planets and the four terrestrial planets in our solar…
Three possible interiors of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets. All seven planets have very similar densities, so they likely have a similar…
This graph presents measured properties of the seven TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets.
Scientists now know the density of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets with a higher precision than any other planets in the…
The Blue Ring Nebula consists of two expanding cones of debris. The base of one cone is moving toward Earth.…
The Blue Ring Nebula consists of two expanding cones of gas ejected into space by a stellar merger. As the…
A disk of hot material around a supermassive black hole emits a burst of visible light, which travels out to…
Using data collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, this animation shows the trajectories of rock particles after being ejected from asteroid…
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space telescope shows the star-forming nebula W51, one of the largest star factories in the…
The circled streak in the center of this image is asteroid 2020 QG, which came closer to Earth than any…
This illustration shows asteroid 2020 QG's trajectory bending during its close approach to Earth. The asteroid is the closest known…
This illustration shows a black hole surrounded by a disk of gas. In the left panel, a streak of debris…
Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE appears as a string of fuzzy red dots in this composite of several heat-sensitive infrared images…
This artist's concept depicts the asteroid Psyche, the target of NASA's Psyche mission.
Neutron stars, or cores leftover from exploded stars, are some of the densest objects in the universe. There are several…
This animation shows two massive black holes in the OJ 287 galaxy.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope took this image of the California Nebula on Jan. 25, 2020, five days before the spacecraft…
This graphic compares the size of Earth and Kepler-1649c, an exoplanet only 1.06 times larger than Earth by radius.
This artist's concept shows what exoplanet Kepler-1649c could look like on its surface.
This artist's concept shows exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star.
This illustration shows brown dwarfs are more massive than planets but not quite as massive as stars.
This artist's concept shows a brown dwarf, an object that is at least 13 times the mass of Jupiter but…
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Tarantula Nebula in infrared light.
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Tarantula Nebula in two wavelengths of infrared light, each represented by…
In this artist's rendering of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in space, the background is shown in infrared light.
This graphic illustrates how a faraway quasar (an extremely bright region in the center of some distant galaxies) is altered…
Each snapshot shows four distorted images of a background quasar, surrounding the core of a massive foreground galaxy. The gravity…
In this composite image of the Omega, or Swan, Nebula, SOFIA's view reveals evidence that parts of the nebula formed…
NASA's Spitzer Space telescope shows a collection of gas and dust over 500 light-years across, the Perseus Molecular Cloud, hosts…
Peering more than 10 billion light-years into the distance, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has found tens of millions…
This animation illustrates the modeled trajectories of particles that were ejected from Bennu's surface on Jan. 19, 2019.
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on Jan. 6, 2019, was created by combining two images…
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust carved out by a massive…
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are…
Comet C/2019 Q4 as imaged by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Hawaii's Big Island on Sept. 10, 2019.
This visible-light image of the Fireworks galaxy (NGC 6946) comes from the Digital Sky Survey, and is overlaid with data…
This artist's illustration of the exoplanet LHS 3844b, shows the planet's surface may be covered mostly in dark lava rock,…
This image by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows Galaxy NGC 5866, oriented almost exactly edge-on, yielding most of its structural…
This multipanel image by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows how different wavelengths of light can reveal different features of a…
A mosaic by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of the Cepheus C and Cepheus B regions. This image combines data from…
A mosaic by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of the Cepheus C and Cepheus B regions. This image combines data from…
This deep-field view of the sky taken by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes is dominated by galaxies.
This animation shows the distance between the Apophis asteroid and Earth at the time of the asteroid's closest approach.
