Milky way - The real shape of our galaxy is revealed in this infrared ...
Milky way - The real shape of our galaxy is revealed in this infrared image obtained by IRAS. Infrared light penetrates the dust clouds and shows that the galaxy appears as a thin disk, just like the edge-on sp... More
Milky way - This image of the center of our galaxy was produced from o...
Milky way - This image of the center of our galaxy was produced from observtons made by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS). The infrared telescope carried by IRAS sees through the dust and gas that obsc... More
At the Heart of Blobs Artist Concept
This artist's concept illustrates one possible answer to the puzzle of the "giant galactic blobs." These blobs (red), first identified about five years ago, are mammoth clouds of intensely glowing material that... More
Blobs House Twin Stars, JPL/NASA images
This image is one of six images taken by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, showing that tight-knit twin, or binary stars might be triggered to form by asymmetrical envelopes. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Michigan