This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” dotted with bright stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324.
The Milky Way galaxy is blazing with dust in this all-sky map from Planck, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with significant contributions from NASA.
A festive picture of our galaxy shows a mixture of gas, charged particles and many types of dust
The center of our galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscure dust and gas.
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) observed the magnetic field in this composite image of Centaurus A.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe – which at the time was one of the most colorful deep space images ever captured.