WISE’s New View of the Barnard 3 Nebula

WISE, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, has a new view of Barnard 3, or IRAS Ring…

Celestial Bauble Intrigues Astronomers

With the holiday season in full swing, a new image from an assembly of telescopes reveals…

Station Commander Captures Unprecedented View of Comet

International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy from about 240 miles…

Expedition 30 Lifts Off

The Soyuz TMA-03M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011,…

A ‘Rose’ Made of Galaxies

In celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment in April 2011, astronomers…

Expedition 30 Soyuz Rolls to the Pad

The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft is rolled out by train on its way to the launch pad…

Spiral Galaxy

Resembling festive lights on a holiday wreath, this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the nearby…

Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel

The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched…

A Galaxy Cluster Gets Sloshed

Like wine in a glass, vast clouds of hot gas are sloshing back and forth in…

Apollo 17 Extravehicular Activity – 39 Years Ago Today

39 years ago, today, scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge, split…