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A view from space.
This picture titled: Terraced Night.
Magnetic loops carry gas and dust above disks of planet-forming material circling stars, as shown in this artist's conception. These loops give off extra heat, which NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detects as infrared light.
Swirls of green and red appear in an aurora over Whitehorse, Yukon.
This image of Asia and Australia at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012.
Scientists first observed Saturn’s auroras in 1979. Decades later, these shimmering ribbons of light still fascinate. For one thing they’re magnificently tall, rising hundreds of miles above the planet’s poles. And unlike on Earth, where bright
This computer simulation shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Some of the gas also is being ejected at high speed into space.
Cygnus X hosts many young stellar groupings. The combined outflows and ultraviolet radiation from the region's numerous massive stars have heated and pushed gas away from the clusters, producing cavities of hot, lower-density gas. In this infrared
This computer-generated view depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight. Gale Crater looms in the distance, distinguished from adjacent craters by its central mountain of strata.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found Jupiter's Great Red Spot shrink mysteriously
The Hubble Space Telescope revealed this majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in this view of the spiral galaxy.
The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains of a tremendous stellar explosion. Observers in China and Japan recorded the supernova nearly 1,000 years ago, in 1054.
Unlike Earth, Venus lacks a magnetic field to deflect powerful solar outbursts -- as can be seen in this NASA-created image, a still from the video 'Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine'.
In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are combined with infrared data from the ground-based Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona to assemble a dramatic view of the well-known Ring Nebula.
The Cat's Eye Nebula, one of the first planetary nebulae discovered, also has one of the most complex forms known to this kind of nebula. Eleven rings, or shells, of gas make up the Cat's Eye. Each 'ring' is actually the edge of a spherical bubble
Sun Yang. (Photo: AP)
NASA studies the universe, from the smallest particles of matter and energy to the biggest questions of the evolution and structure of the cosmos in their television show titled 'Cosmos'. It is a 13-part space series has released some stunning
When plants photosynthesize, they give off light that's invisible to humans. NASA mapped that light from space.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is our very own satellite galaxy 'The Milky Way'.
This unseen life form is pretty tough to see, considering they're so tiny. NASA termed these as "extremophiles," and studies claim that they can survive under layers of ice or on the edge of a lava flow.
A star explosion is called 'supernova', and is the biggest explosions in the universe, according to NASA.
Picture used for representational purpose. (photo: Agencies)
An aurora, seen from space.
Auroras happen when particles of energy leave the Sun and enter the Earth's atmosphere, according to NASA's website. Those energy fragments release other particles in the Earth's atmosphere that then trigger the light show.
The merger of the Milky Way and nearby Andromeda Galaxy, which is predicted to happen in the next several billion years.
NASA makes use of such satellites to track their own Data Relay Satellites to relay information in space.