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Bookmark or Share- NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per HourMost familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space.
- 360-Degree View of the Milky Way - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)In Spitzer's mosaic, light from stars throughout the galaxy -- which stretches 100,000 light-years across -- shines through. This picture covers only about three percent of the sky, but includes more than half of the galaxy's stars and the majority of its star formation activity. The red color shows dusty areas of star formation.
- Stars and Galaxies | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)Through its research and missions, JPL has captured data and stunning images of many of these odd objects in space. In addition, future work involves unlocking the mysteries of the invisible phenomena of dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 85% of the mass in the universe and creates the basic scaffolding for galaxy construction.
- NuSTAR's View of Galaxy NGC 1068 - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)Galaxy NGC 1068 is shown in visible light and X-rays in this composite image. High-energy X-rays (magenta) captured by NASA's NuSTAR, are overlaid on visible-light images from both NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
- New Images From Euclid Mission Reveal Wide View of the Dark UniverseEuclid’s large field of view captures the entirety of galaxy NGC 6744 and shows astronomers key areas of star formation. Forming stars is the main way by which galaxies grow and evolve, so these investigations are central to understanding why galaxies look the way they do.
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