Globular Cluster Omega Centauri Captured by NEWFIRM on the Blanco Telescope
During its commissioning and capabilities testing, astronomers used NEWFIRM on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile to capture a spectacular image of the Omega Centauri globular cluster. At about 17,000 light-years from Earth in the...
Everything, in one place, all at once
This luminous Picture of the Week shows Z 229-15 — imaged here in beautiful detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope — a celestial object that lies about 390 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Z 229-15 is one of those interesting celestial objects that, should you...
Jupiter
Hubble Monitors Changing Weather and Seasons on Jupiter and Uranus
Ever since its launch in 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been an interplanetary weather observer for keeping an eye on the largely gaseous outer planets, which all have ever-changing atmospheres. NASA spacecraft missions to the outer planets have given us a close-up look at these...
Jupiter
Hubble Monitors Changing Weather and Seasons on Jupiter and Uranus
Ever since its launch in 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been an interplanetary weather observer for keeping an eye on the largely gaseous outer planets, which all have ever-changing atmospheres. NASA spacecraft missions to the outer planets have given us a close-up look at these...
Jupiter
Hubble Monitors Changing Weather and Seasons on Jupiter and Uranus
Ever since its launch in 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been an interplanetary weather observer for keeping an eye on the largely gaseous outer planets, which all have ever-changing atmospheres. NASA spacecraft missions to the outer planets have given us a close-up look at these...
Jupiter
Hubble Monitors Changing Weather and Seasons on Jupiter and Uranus
Ever since its launch in 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been an interplanetary weather observer for keeping an eye on the largely gaseous outer planets, which all have ever-changing atmospheres. NASA spacecraft missions to the outer planets have given us a close-up look at these...
Jupiter
Hubble Monitors Changing Weather and Seasons on Jupiter and Uranus
Ever since its launch in 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been an interplanetary weather observer for keeping an eye on the largely gaseous outer planets, which all have ever-changing atmospheres. NASA spacecraft missions to the outer planets have given us a close-up look at these...
Jupiter
Hubble Monitors Changing Weather and Seasons on Jupiter and Uranus
Ever since its launch in 1990, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been an interplanetary weather observer for keeping an eye on the largely gaseous outer planets, which all have ever-changing atmospheres. NASA spacecraft missions to the outer planets have given us a close-up look at these...
IC4701
Plunge into a stellar ocean
In this Picture of the Week, we take a deep plunge into the ocean of stars in the IC4701 nebula. This nebula is located in the Sagittarius constellation, and it is twice as wide as the full Moon in the sky. The energetic light from newly-born stars ionizes the hydrogen gas in the nebula,...
WR 124
WR 124 (MIRI Image)
Wolf-Rayet stars are known to be efficient dust producers, and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows this to great effect. Cooler cosmic dust glows at the longer mid-infrared wavelengths, displaying the structure of WR 124’s nebula. The nebula is made of...
Illustration of a Kilonova
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will survey the same areas of the sky every few days following its launch in May 2027. Researchers will mine these data to identify kilonovae – explosions that happen when two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole collide and merge. When these collisions...
IC 5337
Portrait of a galactic jellyfish
The galaxy JW100 features prominently in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with streams of star-forming gas dripping from the disc of the galaxy like streaks of fresh paint. These tendrils of bright gas are formed by a process called ram pressure stripping, and their...
Pulled from the Archive
Getting Started
Images from telescopes around the world and in space are now at your fingertips. AstroPix is a new way to explore and share the universe.
- Basic Search - Type some terms into the upper right text box to do a quick search.
- Browse by Topic - Jump right to some common categories that showcase the AstroPix collection.
- Advanced Search - Create your own structured search, or modify a browse topic, to find exactly the images that interest you.
Content Providers & Partners
- NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
- European Southern Observatory (ESO)
- NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
- ESA's Herschel Space Observatory via NASA Herschel Science Center
- Multi-Mission Archive for Space Telescopes via STScI
- NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope via ESA/Hubble
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
- NSF's NOIRLab (Gemini Observatory, KPNO, CTIO, Rubin Observatory)
- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
- ESA's Planck Satellite via Planck U.S. Data Center
- NASA's SPHEREx
- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
- NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
- Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)
- WorldWide Telescope
