The Universe

This image of Jupiter was taken when the planet was closest to Earth in 2017. The Great Red Spot appears on the left side, along with a smaller, reddish storm...

This image shows a pair of galaxies called NGC 3314. Through a chance alignment, a face-on spiral galaxy lies precisely in front of another, larger spiral. This provides a view...

This infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a population of massive stars and complex structures in the hot ionized gas that swirls around the galactic...

Usually, when a spiral galaxy appears edge-on, its dust and spiral arms appear flat. The warping of the disk in ESO 510-G13 suggests this galaxy has recently undergone a collision...

This is a close-up view of a star-birth region called the 30 Doradus Nebula. The giant stellar factory lies 170,000 light-years away inside a nearby galaxy known as the Large...

About 130 million light-years away, NGC 4650A is one of only 100 known polar-ring galaxies, which feature a ring of stars encircling a disk. Polar rings might form when two...

This image shows Jupiter and its large moon Ganymede as the moon peeks out from behind the planet. Composed of rock and ice, Ganymede is the largest moon in our...

Resembling a swirling witch's cauldron of glowing vapors, the black-hole-powered core of the Circinus galaxy appears in this image. Much of the gas in the spiral galaxy's disk is concentrated...

This infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a population of massive stars and complex structures in the hot ionized gas that swirls around the galactic...

This image shows a ghostly green blob of gas that appears to float near a normal-looking spiral galaxy. The bizarre object, dubbed Hanny's Voorwerp, is the visible part of a...

The giant elliptical galaxy in the center of this image is the most massive and brightest member of galaxy cluster Abell 2261. More than a million light-years wide, the galaxy...

ESO 99-4 is a galaxy with a highly peculiar shape. It is probably the remnant of an earlier merger process that has deformed it, leaving the main body largely obscured...