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This image of the Milky Way, taken in April 2026, reveals the vast river of stars that stretches across our night sky. Countless stars fill the scene, while the bright central plane of our galaxy cuts diagonally across the image from top right to bottom left.
The Milky Way appears as a glowing mix of faint white, blue, and purple light, threaded with dark clouds of dust that obscure regions deeper within the galaxy. Hidden inside these dusty lanes are stellar nurseries, star clusters, and some of the most active regions of star formation in our cosmic neighborhood.
Images like this remind us that our Solar System is just one tiny part of a galaxy containing hundreds of billions of stars.
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Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope using its powerful MIRI instrument, this stunning view reveals the intricate structure of the Phantom Galaxy in extraordinary detail.
Webb’s sharp infrared vision uncovers delicate filaments of gas and dust threading through the galaxy’s grand spiral arms, highlighting the material that fuels future generations of stars.
One of the most striking discoveries is the relative lack of gas in the galaxy’s central region. This gives astronomers a rare, unobscured view of the dense nuclear star cluster at the galaxy’s core — a region often hidden behind thick dust in many spiral galaxies.
Observations like this help scientists understand how stars, gas, and galactic structures interact and evolve across cosmic time.
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Credits @europeanspaceagency / @esawebb , @nasa , @canadianspaceagency , J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team. Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt
It may look calm today, but Abell 2029 had a chaotic past.
Often called “the most relaxed cluster in the universe,” Abell 2029 appears smooth and undisturbed compared to many other galaxy clusters. But new observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveal that this giant structure is still recovering from a dramatic collision that happened around four billion years ago.
This composite image shows the cluster as a massive spiral of superheated gas stretching across space like a glowing cosmic seashell. The white points scattered throughout are galaxies and stars seen in optical light, while the neon blue spiral reveals hot X-ray gas filling the space between galaxies.
The spiral structure begins near the cluster’s center and expands outward in a giant corkscrew pattern extending roughly two million light-years across. Astronomers believe this shape formed after Abell 2029 collided with a smaller galaxy cluster, sending waves of hot gas swirling through the system.
By studying galaxy clusters like this, scientists can better understand how the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe evolve over billions of years.
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Credits: NASA/CXC/CfA/C. Watson et al.; PanSTARRS; NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk and P. Edmonds
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IC 486 glows against the darkness of space in this stunning new Hubble image. Located about 380 million light-years away on the edge of the constellation Gemini, this galaxy is classified as a barred spiral — meaning its spiral arms emerge from a bright, elongated bar at the center.
Its structure appears smooth and elegant, with spiral arms wrapping around the core in an almost ring-like pattern. But beneath that beauty lies a dynamic environment shaped by stars, gas, and dust.
Hubble reveals subtle color differences across the galaxy. The bright central region is dominated by older stars, while faint bluish areas in the outer disk mark regions where newer stars are forming. Thin lanes of dust weave through the galaxy, tracing dense clouds of gas that may become future stellar nurseries.
Galaxies like IC 486 help astronomers understand how stars form and how spiral galaxies evolve over billions of years.
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Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. J. Koss, A. J. Barth
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Our home galaxy, captured in a new light.
This image of the Milky Way, taken in April 2026, reveals the vast river of stars that stretches across our night sky. Countless stars fill the scene, while the bright central plane of our galaxy cuts diagonally across the image from top right to bottom left.
The Milky Way appears as a glowing mix of faint white, blue, and purple light, threaded with dark clouds of dust that obscure regions deeper within the galaxy. Hidden inside these dusty lanes are stellar nurseries, star clusters, and some of the most active regions of star formation in our cosmic neighborhood.
Images like this remind us that our Solar System is just one tiny part of a galaxy containing hundreds of billions of stars.
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Credits: NASA/MIT/TESS
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From PLATO to the Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope, through Mars and Europe. What’s more? Find out in the update video here:
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HAPPENING NOW: NASA’s Psyche Mission is about to perform one of the most important maneuvers of its multi-year journey through deep space: a close flyby of Mars that will use the Red Planet’s gravity to reshape the spacecraft’s path toward its final destination — the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche. Read more: spaceinfo.club/nasas-psyche-mission-uses-mars-for-…
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The Phantom Galaxy comes into focus.
Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope using its powerful MIRI instrument, this stunning view reveals the intricate structure of the Phantom Galaxy in extraordinary detail.
Webb’s sharp infrared vision uncovers delicate filaments of gas and dust threading through the galaxy’s grand spiral arms, highlighting the material that fuels future generations of stars.
One of the most striking discoveries is the relative lack of gas in the galaxy’s central region. This gives astronomers a rare, unobscured view of the dense nuclear star cluster at the galaxy’s core — a region often hidden behind thick dust in many spiral galaxies.
Observations like this help scientists understand how stars, gas, and galactic structures interact and evolve across cosmic time.
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Credits @europeanspaceagency / @esawebb , @nasa , @canadianspaceagency , J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team.
Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt
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It may look calm today, but Abell 2029 had a chaotic past.
Often called “the most relaxed cluster in the universe,” Abell 2029 appears smooth and undisturbed compared to many other galaxy clusters. But new observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveal that this giant structure is still recovering from a dramatic collision that happened around four billion years ago.
This composite image shows the cluster as a massive spiral of superheated gas stretching across space like a glowing cosmic seashell. The white points scattered throughout are galaxies and stars seen in optical light, while the neon blue spiral reveals hot X-ray gas filling the space between galaxies.
The spiral structure begins near the cluster’s center and expands outward in a giant corkscrew pattern extending roughly two million light-years across. Astronomers believe this shape formed after Abell 2029 collided with a smaller galaxy cluster, sending waves of hot gas swirling through the system.
By studying galaxy clusters like this, scientists can better understand how the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe evolve over billions of years.
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Hubble spies an active spiral.
IC 486 glows against the darkness of space in this stunning new Hubble image. Located about 380 million light-years away on the edge of the constellation Gemini, this galaxy is classified as a barred spiral — meaning its spiral arms emerge from a bright, elongated bar at the center.
Its structure appears smooth and elegant, with spiral arms wrapping around the core in an almost ring-like pattern. But beneath that beauty lies a dynamic environment shaped by stars, gas, and dust.
Hubble reveals subtle color differences across the galaxy. The bright central region is dominated by older stars, while faint bluish areas in the outer disk mark regions where newer stars are forming. Thin lanes of dust weave through the galaxy, tracing dense clouds of gas that may become future stellar nurseries.
Galaxies like IC 486 help astronomers understand how stars form and how spiral galaxies evolve over billions of years.
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Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. J. Koss, A. J. Barth
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