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Supergiant Rigel and IC 2118 in Eridanus.

Supergiant Rigel and IC 2118 in Eridanus. IC 2118 (Cederblad 41, The Witch Head Nebula)

The Pleiades surrounded by dust and nebulosity.

Red Super Giant Cluster with Supernova Remnant.

Red Super Giant Cluster with associated Supernova Remnant GPSR5 25.252-0.139 and HII region W42 in background Milky Way, looking back toward Earth.

Open cluster NGC 884 in the constellation Perseus.

NGC 884 is an open cluster located 7600 light years away in the constellation of Perseus. It is the easternmost of the Double Cluster with NGC 869.

The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules.

Messier 13 or M13 (also designated NGC 6205 and sometimes called the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules or the Hercules Globular Cluster), is a globular cluster in the constellation of Hercules.

Globular cluster Messier 3 in Canes Venatici.

Messier 3 (also known as M3 or NGC 5272) is a globular cluster in the constellation Canes Venatici. This cluster is one of the largest and brightest, and is made up of around 500,000 stars. It is located at a distance of about 33,900 light-years away from Earth. M3 has an apparent magnitude of 6.2, making it visible to the naked eye under dark conditions. From a moderate-sized telescope, the cluster is fully defined.

The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters.

The Pleiades, also known as M45, the Seven Sisters, Seven Stars, or SED, is an open cluster in the constellation of Taurus.

A population of infant stars in the Milky Way

A population of infant stars in the Milky Way satellite galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), visible to the naked eye in the southern constellation Tucana), located 210,000 light-years away.

The Arches star cluster in the Milky Way Galaxy.

This artist's impression shows how the Arches star cluster appears from deep inside the hub of our Milky Way Galaxy. The illustration is based on infrared observations with Hubble and with ground-based telescopes, which pierced our galaxy's dusty core and snapped images of the luminous cluster of about 2,000 stars.

The Pleiades Star Cluster

The Pleiades Star Cluster (M45) is located in the constellation of Taurus.

May 7, 2004 - Image of comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)

Stars

A collision between massive objects in space.

This artist concept illustrates how a massive collision of objects, perhaps as large as the planet Pluto, smashed together to create the dust ring around the nearby star Vega. In the image, a collision is seen between massive objects that measured up to 2,000 kilometers (about 1,200 miles) in diameter.

Milky Way Galaxy

In visible light, the bulk of our Milky Way galaxy's stars are eclipsed behind thick clouds of galactic dust and gas. But to the infrared eyes of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, distant stars and dust clouds shine with unparalleled clarity and color. In this panoramic image from the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire project, a plethora of stellar activity in the Milky Way's galactic plane, reaching to the far side of our galaxy, is exposed. This image spans 9 degrees of sky (approximately the width of a fist held out at arm's length). The red clouds indicate the presence of large organic molecules (mixed with the dust), which have been illuminated by nearby star formation. The patches of black are dense obscuring dust clouds impenetrable by even Spitzer's super-sensitive infrared eyes. Bright arcs of white throughout the image are massive stellar incubators.

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The clockwork-like orbits of a triple-star system.

This artist's animation shows the clockwork-like orbits of a triple-star system called HD 188753, which was discovered to harbor a gas giant, or hot Jupiter, planet. The planet zips around the system's main star (yellow, center) every 3.3 days, while the main star is circled every 25.7 years by a dancing duo of stars (yellow and orange, outer orbit). The star pair is locked in a 156-day orbit.

The birth of a star.

In this artist's conception, we peer through the dark dust of L1014 to witness the birth of a star. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected a faint, warm object inside the apparently starless core of a small, dense molecular cloud. If, as astronomers suspect, there is a young star deep inside the dusty core, it would have a structure similar to this illustration.

Newborn stars in the Christmas Tree cluster.

Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the Christmas Tree cluster from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Gas and dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation. This majestic view, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), reveals a region where low-mass, infant stars and their much more massive stellar neighbors reside. A shroud of blue haze gently lingers amid the stars. Known as LH 95, this is just one of the hundreds of star-forming systems, called associations, located in the LMC some 160,000 light-years distant.

Massive Star Cluster

Call it the Bermuda Triangle of our Milky Way Galaxy: a tiny patch of sky that has been known for years to be the source of the mysterious blasts of X-rays and gamma rays. Now, a team of astronomers has solved the mystery by identifying one of the most massive star clusters in the galaxy. The little-known cluster, which has not been catalogued, is about 20 times more massive than typical star clusters in our galaxy, and appears to be the source of the powerful outbursts.

The center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

SIM PlanetQuest space telescope.

SIM PlanetQuest, scheduled for launch within the next decade, will be the most powerful planet-hunting space telescope ever devised. Using two separated mirrors and combining their light with a technique known as interferometry, SIM PlanetQuest will able to detect planets as small as Earth. These are the kind of planets that scientists believe have the most potential to support life.

The Large Magellanic Cloud

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. The Large Magellanic Cloud, located 160,000 light-years from Earth, is one of a handful of dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way.

Composite image of a galaxy cluster.

This is a new composite image of galaxy cluster MS0735.6+7421, located about 2.6 billion light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. The three views of the region were taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in February 2006, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in November 2003, and NRAO's Very Large Array in October 2004. The image shows dozens of galaxies bound together by gravity. In January 2005, astronomers reported that a supermassive black hole, lurking in the central bright galaxy, generated the most powerful outburst seen in the universe. The VLA radio image shows jets of high energy particles (in red) streaming from the black hole. These jets pushed the X-ray emitting hot gas (shown in blue in the Chandra image) aside to create two giant cavities in the gas. The cavities are evidence for the massive eruption. The X-ray and radio images show the enormous appetite of large black holes and the profound impact they have on their surroundings.

Spitzer seen against the infrared sky.

Spitzer seen against the infrared sky. The band of light is the glowing dust emission from the Milky Way galaxy seen at 100 microns (as seen by the IRAS/COBE missions). Spitzer looks towards the Rho Ophiuchi star-formation region looming just above the disk of the Milky Way.

Newly formed stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

This image depicts bright, blue, newly formed stars that are blowing a cavity in the center of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Spitzer seen against the infrared sky.

GEN100018S: Open cluster known as The Pleiades.

The Pleiades, also known as Messier 45 or the Seven Sisters, is the name of an open cluster in the constellation of Taurus. The cluster is dominated by hot blue stars, which have formed within the last 100 million years.

NGC 7654, an open cluster in the Cassiopeia conste

Messier 52, also known as NGC 7654, is an open cluster in the Cassiopeia constellation.

Trapezium region in the heart of the Orion Nebula

A view of the Trapezium region, which lies in the heart of the Orion Nebula. Also shown is Messier 43, also known as De Mairan's Nebula and NGC 1982, which is an H II region in the Orion constellation.

Owl Cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia

NGC 457 is an open star cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia. It contains nearly one hundred stars and lies over 9,000 light years away from the Sun.

Globular cluster in Tucana

47 Tucanae (NGC104), Globular Cluster in Tucana.

NGC 2244, open cluster within the Rosette Nebula

NGC 2244, the open cluster within the Rosette Nebula, which is a large, circular H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the constellation Monoceros

Small Magellanic Cloud

Globular Cluster Omega Centauri

Omega Centauri or NGC 5139 is a globular cluster of stars seen in the constellation of Centaurus. It is both the brightest and the largest known globular cluster associated with the Milky Way.

The Great Clobular Cluster in Hercules

The Great Clobular Cluster in Hercules, also known as Messier 13 or NGC 6205, is a globular cluster in the Hercules constellation.

The Double Cluster - NGC 884 and NGC 869

The Double Cluster, NGC 884 and NGC 869, as seen in the constellation of Perseus.

The Double Cluster - NGC 884 and NGC 869

The Double Cluster, NGC 884 and NGC 869, as seen in the constellation of Perseus.

The Wild Duck Cluster

The Wild Duck Cluster (NGC 6705), is an open cluster of almost 3,000 stars located over 5,000 light years from Earth towards the southern constellation of Scutum

Thackeray's Globules and IC 2944

Narrowband image of Thackeray's Globules and IC 2944, also known as the Running Chicken Nebula.

Loops of NGC 3576

Widefield view of star flux in Cygnus

Widefield image of narrowband emission in Cygnus