Explore:
Exoplanets
Worlds beyond our solar system.
Stars
Giant balls of hot gas that burn for millions to billions of years.
Black Holes
Concentrations of matter with gravity so powerful not even light can escape.
Galaxies
Collections of stars, planets, and vast clouds of gas and dust bound together by gravity.
NASA’s Hubble, Webb Probe "Snowstorm" of Debris Around Vega
In 2005, NASA’s Spitzer mapped a ring of dust around Vega, one of the brightest stars in the northern sky. Now, using Hubble and Webb, scientists find the disk is smoother than expected and exoplanets are conspicuously absent.
Learn More
Blue Snowball Nebula
Caldwell 22, also cataloged as NGC 7662 and nicknamed the Snowball Nebula or Blue Snowball Nebula, is a planetary nebula located about 2,500 light-years from Earth.
Learn More
Cozy up to the Fermi fireplace
Although it looks a little like a crackling fire, this is actually a 14-year time-lapse of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope’s observations.
Learn moreCosmic Winter Wonderland
Although there are no seasons in space, this cosmic vista invokes thoughts of a frosty winter landscape. It is, in fact, a region called NGC 6357 where radiation from hot, young stars is energizing the cooler gas in the cloud that surrounds them.
Learn More
