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The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, stands above the southern horizon in this telephoto view from Las Campanas Observa
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This helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages is popularly called Thor's Helmet. Thor's Helmet spans about 30 light-years acros
Most of us think of sharks as fast, sleek, and ravenous predators. But some are odd-looking, interesting, and not terribly dangerous. The Wobbegong
The Angel Shark (also known as the Monkfish) was once common in coastal areas of the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. It has a wide, flatte
Framing a bright emission region, this telescopic view looks out across a pretty field of stars along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, toward the ne
The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, abo
Just like tadpoles in a pond on Earth, there are images of tadpoles that were placed inside this cosmic pond, an emission nebula dubbed IC 410.
Have you ever seen the Summer Triangle? The bright stars Vega, Deneb, and Altair form a large triangle on the sky that can be seen rising in the no
Typically, the International Space Station is visible only at night. Slowly drifting across the night sky as it orbits the Earth, the International S
One interesting fact about our nearest star, is that it's not just a single star, it's a multiple star system – two stars as bright a
These are two apple seeds, and I'm ready to plant them on my property. To think that such a small seed can grow a huge tree that will in turn g
You don't have to be at Monument Valley to see the Milky Way arc across the sky like this -- but it helps. Only at Monument Valley USA would yo
Star cluster Westerlund 1 is home to some of the largest and most massive stars known. It is headlined by the star Westerlund 1-26, a red supergian
Distant galaxies and nearby nebulas highlight this deep image of the M81 Group of galaxies. First and foremost in this 80-exposure mosaic is the gr
This colorful skyscape spans about four full moons across nebula rich starfields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy in the royal northern constel
What powers the Heart Nebula? The large emission nebula dubbed IC 1805 looks, in whole, like a heart. The nebula's glow -- as well as the shape
The Heart Nebula, (also labeled as IC 1805, Sh2-190), a space gas cloud that looks like a heart, lies in the Cassiopeia constellation, about 7500 l
