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Centaurus A's Warped Magnetic Fields


The Galactic Center in Infrared


Simeis 147: Supernova Remnant


Mid-Air Meteor and Milky Way

On September 24, a late evening commercial flight from Singapore to Australia offered stratospheric views of the southern hemisphere's night sky.

The Annotated Galactic Center

The center of our Milky Way galaxy can be found some 26,000 light-years away toward the constellation Sagittarius.

M31: The Andromeda Galaxy

How far can you see?

Messier 61 Close Up

Image data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory, and small telescopes on planet Earth are combined in this magnificent portrait of face-on spiral galaxy Messier 61 (M61).

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula in Cepheus

Like an illustration in a galactic Just So Story!

Supernova Cannon Expels Pulsar J0002

What could shoot out a neutron star like a cannon ball?

Arp 87: Merging Galaxies from Hubble

This dance is to the death. Along the way, as these two large galaxies duel, a cosmic bridge of stars, gas, and dust currently stretches over 75,000 light-years and joins them.

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