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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-11-30 Black Hole simulation 925x1197x3
Black Hole Simulation
PIA04206:
Black Hole Simulation
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-11-30 black hole in 3d 369x786x3
Black Hole in 3D
PIA04207:
Black Hole in 3D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-27 Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
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Point Source All Sky
PIA04250:
Point Source All Sky
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-27 Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
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Extended Source/Galaxy All Sky 2
PIA04251:
Extended Source/Galaxy All Sky 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-27 Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
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Extended Source/Galaxy All Sky 1
PIA04252:
Extended Source/Galaxy All Sky 1
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-27 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Out of the Dust, A Planet is Born
PIA05988:
Out of the Dust, A Planet is Born
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.995 MB)     JPEG (111.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-09 Spitzer Space Telescope
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A Distant Solar System (Artist's Concept)
PIA07096:
A Distant Solar System (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (7.518 MB)     JPEG (308.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-09 Spitzer Space Telescope
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A Distant Solar System (Artist's Concept Animation)
PIA07097:
A Distant Solar System (Artist's Concept Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-09 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Is There Anybody Home?
PIA07098:
Is There Anybody Home?
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.3 MB)     JPEG (126 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-09 Spitzer Space Telescope
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The Evolution of a Planet-Forming Disk (Artist's Concept Animation)
PIA07099:
The Evolution of a Planet-Forming Disk (Artist's Concept Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-10 Vega Spitzer Space Telescope
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Massive Smash-up at Vega
PIA07217:
Massive Smash-up at Vega
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-11 Spitzer Space Telescope
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At the Heart of Blobs
PIA07221:
At the Heart of Blobs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-08 OTS 44 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Birth of an Unusual Planetary System
PIA07335:
Birth of an Unusual Planetary System Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-08 OTS 44 Spitzer Space Telescope
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'Mini-Me' Solar System
PIA07336:
'Mini-Me' Solar System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-01 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Invisible Galaxies Come to Life!
PIA07396:
Invisible Galaxies Come to Life! Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-20 HD 69830 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Alien Asteroid Belt Compared to our Own
PIA07853:
Alien Asteroid Belt Compared to our Own Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (23.04 MB)     JPEG (451.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-04-20 HD 69830 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Band of Rubble
PIA07854:
Band of Rubble Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.6 MB)     JPEG (350.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-02 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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Space Eyes See Comet Tempel 1 (Artist's Concept)
PIA03516:
Space Eyes See Comet Tempel 1 (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-01 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
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The Road to Tempel (Artist's Concept)
PIA02106:
The Road to Tempel (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-01 Comet Spitzer Space Telescope
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Genesis of a Comet (Artist's Concept)
PIA02107:
Genesis of a Comet (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-01 Comet 720x573x3
It Happens in a Flash
PIA02108:
It Happens in a Flash
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-20 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Sowing the Seeds of Planets? (Artist's Concept)
PIA03048:
Sowing the Seeds of Planets? (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-29 55 Cancri 3000x2400x3
Artist's concept compares a hypothetical solar system centered around a tiny
PIA03604:
Itsy Bitsy Solar System (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-20 IRS 46 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept illustrates a solar system that is a much younger version of our own. Dusty disks, like the one shown here circling the star, are thought to be the breeding grounds of planets, including rocky ones like Earth
PIA03243:
Portrait of Our Dusty Past
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-05 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Stellar Rubble May be Planetary Building Blocks
PIA08040:
Stellar Rubble May be Planetary Building Blocks Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-05 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Extreme Planets
PIA08042:
Extreme Planets
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-24 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's animation demonstrates how a dusty planet-forming disk can slow down a whirling young star, essentially saving the star from spinning itself to death. Evidence for this phenomenon comes from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
PIA08626:
Stars Can't Spin Out of Control (Artist's Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-08-23 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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An Unwelcome Place for New Stars (artist concept)
PIA08696:
An Unwelcome Place for New Stars (artist concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-08-23 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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Big Black Holes Mean Bad News for Stars (diagram)
PIA08697:
Big Black Holes Mean Bad News for Stars (diagram)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-12 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Fire and Ice Planet
PIA01936:
Fire and Ice Planet Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-12 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Exotic World Blisters Under the Sun
PIA01938:
Exotic World Blisters Under the Sun
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-26 Cassiopeia A Spitzer Space Telescope
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Once an Onion, Always an Onion (Artist Concept)
PIA01901:
Once an Onion, Always an Onion (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-05 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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Black Hole Grabs Starry Snack
PIA01884:
Black Hole Grabs Starry Snack
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-18 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Stars Spring up Out of the Darkness
PIA09099:
Stars Spring up Out of the Darkness Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-26 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This is an artist's concept of a hypothetical 10-million-year-old star system. The bright blur at the center is a star much like our sun. The other orb in the image is a gas-giant planet like Jupiter
PIA09117:
Gas Giants Form Quickly
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-26 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Forecasting Weather on Distant Worlds
PIA09118:
Forecasting Weather on Distant Worlds
Full Resolution:     TIFF (23.04 MB)     JPEG (277.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-21 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This diagram illustrates how astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope can capture the elusive spectra of hot-Jupiter planets. Spectra are an object's light spread apart into its basic components, or wavelengths
PIA09196:
How to Pluck a Spectrum from a Planet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-07 Z Camelopardalis Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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This animation shows an artist's concept of Z Camelopardalis (Z Cam), a stellar system featuring a collapsed, dead star, or white dwarf, and a companion star
PIA09221:
Explosions - Large and Small Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-29 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Alien Sunset (Artist Concept)
PIA09228:
Alien Sunset (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-29 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Two Suns Raise Family of Planetary Bodies (Artist Animation)
PIA09229:
Two Suns Raise Family of Planetary Bodies (Artist Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-18 Rosette Nebula Spitzer Space Telescope
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Highway to the Danger Zone
PIA09266:
Highway to the Danger Zone Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-24 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Evidence for Strange Stellar Family (Artist Concept)
PIA09939:
Evidence for Strange Stellar Family (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-06 CL0958+4702 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Fantastic Four Galaxies with Planet (Artist Concept)
PIA09956:
Fantastic Four Galaxies with Planet (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-06 CL0958+4702 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Galactic Pile-Up (Artist Concept)
PIA09957:
Galactic Pile-Up (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-29 NGC 1333 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Water's Early Journey in a Solar System (Artist Concept)
PIA09967:
Water's Early Journey in a Solar System (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-03 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Birth of an Earth-like Planet (Artist concept)
PIA09931:
Birth of an Earth-like Planet (Artist concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-25 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Bursting with Stars and Black Holes
PIA10093:
Bursting with Stars and Black Holes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-06 55 Cancri PlanetQuest
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Wave of a Planet
PIA10106:
Wave of a Planet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-06 55 Cancri PlanetQuest
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Our Solar System's Cousin?
PIA10107:
Our Solar System's Cousin?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-06 55 Cancri PlanetQuest
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Plentiful Planetary System
PIA10108:
Plentiful Planetary System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-11-06 55 Cancri PlanetQuest
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Journey to a Star Rich with Planets
PIA10109:
Journey to a Star Rich with Planets Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-10 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Galaxies of all Shapes Host Black Holes
PIA10221:
Galaxies of all Shapes Host Black Holes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-25 Abell 1763 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Celestial Cities and the Roads That Connect Them
PIA10227:
Celestial Cities and the Roads That Connect Them
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-27 HD 189733b Spitzer Space Telescope
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NASA's Spitzer Finds Water Vapor on Hot, Alien Planet (Artist's Concept)
PIA10364:
NASA's Spitzer Finds Water Vapor on Hot, Alien Planet (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-04-28 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer Celebrates Five Years in Space
PIA10600:
Galaxy Evolution Explorer Celebrates Five Years in Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-29 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Dissecting a Light Echo
PIA10723:
Dissecting a Light Echo Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-29 Cassiopeia A Spitzer Space Telescope
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Cauldron of Light
PIA10724:
Cauldron of Light Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-29 Cassiopeia A Spitzer Space Telescope
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Dance of the Light Echoes
PIA10725:
Dance of the Light Echoes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-07-10 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Super Starburst Galaxy
PIA10932:
Super Starburst Galaxy
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-27 Epsilon Eridani Spitzer Space Telescope
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Double the Rubble
PIA11375:
Double the Rubble
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-27 Epsilon Eridani Spitzer Space Telescope
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Young Solar System in the Making
PIA11376:
Young Solar System in the Making
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.6 MB)     JPEG (405.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-10 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Not-So-Bright Bulbs
PIA11447:
Not-So-Bright Bulbs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-01-05 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Asteroid 'Bites the Dust' Around Dead Star
PIA11735:
Asteroid 'Bites the Dust' Around Dead Star
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-01-05 GD 40 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Silicates in Alien Asteroids
PIA11736:
Silicates in Alien Asteroids
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.6 MB)     JPEG (278.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-07 Spitzer Space Telescope
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detected a prebiotic, or potentially life-forming, molecule called hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in the planet-forming disks around yellow stars like our sun, but not in the disks around cooler, reddish stars.
PIA11979:
Cool Stars May Have Different Prebiotic Chemical Mix
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-04-07 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's conception shows a young, hypothetical planet around a cool star. A soupy mix of potentially life-forming chemicals can be seen pooling around the base of the jagged rocks.
PIA11980:
Chemical Soups Around Cool Stars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-05-28 VB 10 3000x2400x3
This artist's concept shows the smallest star known to host a planet. The planet, called VB 10b, was discovered using astrometry, a method in which the wobble induced by a planet on its star is measured precisely on the sky.
PIA12015:
A Planet as Big as its Star
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-05-28 VB 10 PlanetQuest
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This movie shows the star VB 10 moving across the sky over a period of nine years. Astronomers nabbed a planet circling this star using a method called astrometry—the first successful application of the method to planet hunting.
PIA12013:
How to Find a Tiny Wobble in a Zippy Star
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-06-03 Milky Way Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept illustrates the new view of the Milky Way. The galaxy's two major arms can be seen attached to the ends of a thick central bar, while the two now-demoted minor arms are less distinct and located between the major arms.
PIA10748:
Our Milky Way Gets a Makeover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-09 HD 149026b Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept illustrates the hottest planet yet observed in the universe. The scorching ball of gas, a 'hot Jupiter' called HD 149026b, is about 3 times hotter than the rocky surface of Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system.
PIA09378:
Blacker than Black (artist's concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-05-13 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept illustrates how silicate crystals like those found in comets can be created by an outburst from a growing star. The image shows a young sun-like star encircled by its planet-forming disk of gas and dust.
PIA12008:
Silicate Crystal Formation in the Disk of an Erupting Star Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.6 MB)     JPEG (276.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-05-28 VB 10 2400x3000x3
This artist's diagram compares our solar system (below) to the VB 10 star system. Astronomers successfully used the astrometry planet-hunting method for the first time to discover a gas planet, called VB 10b, around a very tiny star, VB 10.
PIA12014:
Bizarre Planetary System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-10 HD 172555 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming at great speed into a body the size of Mercury
PIA12166:
Planetary Demolition Derby Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.6 MB)     JPEG (362.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-19 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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These two photographs were made by combining data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile to learn that not all galaxies make stars of different sizes in the same quantities.
PIA12175:
A Lesson in Counting Stars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-07 Spitzer Space Telescope
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The King of Rings
PIA12256:
The King of Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-07 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Saturn Family Tour
PIA12258:
Saturn Family Tour
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-21 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept shows a cloudy Jupiter-like planet that orbits very close to its fiery hot star
PIA09200:
Exotic Atmospheres Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-19 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory combined data making this diagram illustratrating the extent to which astronomers have been underestimating the proportion of small to big stars in certain galaxies.
PIA12174:
Adding up Stars in a Galaxy
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-09-23 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's conception shows a lump of material in a swirling, planet- forming disk. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence that either another star or a planet could be pushing planetary material together, as illustrated here.
PIA12210:
Lump of Planetary Stuff
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-10-07 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's conception shows a nearly invisible ring around Saturn -- the largest of the giant planet's many rings. It was discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA12257:
Saturn's Infrared Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-03 Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)
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Infrared Astronomical Satellite's View of the Sky
PIA12335:
Infrared Astronomical Satellite's View of the Sky
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-17 Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)
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The image on the left shows an infrared view of the center of our Milky Way galaxy as seen by the 1983 Infrared Astronomical Satellite, which surveyed the whole sky with only 62 pixels. The image on the right shows an infrared view similar to what NASA's
PIA12465:
The Next Generation of Infrared Views
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-11-17 Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)
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All-Sky Infrared Survey
PIA12467:
All-Sky Infrared Survey
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.168 MB)     JPEG (29.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List Spitzer Space Telescope
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Are brown dwarfs born like stars, as in this rendering, or do they form like planets orbiting another star? A study by researchers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has led to the preliminary conclusion that they are formed much like the star
PIA12376:
Dusty Beginnings of a Star
Full Resolution:     TIFF (23.04 MB)     JPEG (389.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-22 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Blinded by the Light (Artist Concept)
PIA07490:
Blinded by the Light (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (11.48 MB)     JPEG (252.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-27 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Ingredients for Life (Artist's Concept)
PIA03538:
Ingredients for Life (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-06 Hubble Space Telescope
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Kepler's Supernova Remnant: A View from Hubble Space Telescope
PIA06909:
Kepler's Supernova Remnant: A View from Hubble Space Telescope
Full Resolution:     TIFF (30.15 MB)     JPEG (2.364 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-19 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Advanced Camera for Surveys
Infrared Array Camera (IRAC)
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The Mark of a Dying Star
PIA03678:
The Mark of a Dying Star
Full Resolution:     TIFF (32.78 MB)     JPEG (1.165 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-12 Abell 1689 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Advanced Camera for Surveys
Infrared Array Camera (IRAC)
NICMOS
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Astronomers Uncover One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe
PIA10237:
Astronomers Uncover One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-07-01 Hubble Space Telescope
 Advanced Camera for Surveys
Wide Field Planetary Camera 2
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A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago.
PIA10926:
Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial Fireworks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-05 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Autonomous Navigation System
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This image shows how NASA's Deep Impact's impactor targeted comet Tempel 1 as the spacecraft made its final approach in the early morning hours of July 4, 2005.
PIA02136:
A Cyber-Astronaut's Final Moves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-06 Chandra X-Ray Observatory
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Kepler's Supernova Remnant: A View from Chandra X-Ray Observatory
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Kepler's Supernova Remnant: A View from Chandra X-Ray Observatory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-04 Tempel 1 Deep Impact
 Chandra X-Ray Observatory
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X-ray Eyes on Tempel
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X-ray Eyes on Tempel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-25 Chandra X-Ray Telescope
 Chandra X-Ray Telescope
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Stacks of Light
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Stacks of Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-11 Cartwheel Galaxy Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Chandra X-ray Telescope
GALEX Telescope
Infrared Array Camera (IRAC)
Visible Light
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This false-color composite image shows the Cartwheel galaxy, where the first ripple appears as an ultraviolet-bright blue outer ring.
PIA03296:
A Stellar Ripple
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-06 Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Chandra X-Ray Telescope
Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
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Three Great Eyes on Kepler's Supernova Remnant
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Three Great Eyes on Kepler's Supernova Remnant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-13 N132D Spitzer Space Telescope
 Chandra X-ray Telescope
Infrared Array Camera (IRAC)
Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS)
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A Supernova's Shockwaves
PIA09604:
A Supernova's Shockwaves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-24 M82 Galaxy Hubble Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
 Chandra X-ray Telescope
Infrared Array Camera (IRAC)
Visible Light
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NASA's Spitzer, Hubble and Chandra space observatories teamed up to create this multi-wavelength, false-colored view of the M82 galaxy. The lively portrait celebrates Hubble's
PIA08093:
Great Observatories Present Rainbow of a Galaxy Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-06 NGC 6193 Chandra X-Ray Telescope
 Chandra X-Ray Telescope
IRAC
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RCW 108: Massive Young Stars Trigger Stellar Birth
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RCW 108: Massive Young Stars Trigger Stellar Birth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-01-06 Cassiopeia A Chandra X-ray Observatory
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IRAC
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Supernova Remnant in 3-D
PIA11748:
Supernova Remnant in 3-D Animation Icon
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