Credit X-ray: NASA/CXC/UMass/D. Wang et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/D.Wang et al.; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSC/S.Stolovy JPEG (390.1 kb) Tiff (61.3 MB) PS (36.3 MB) More Images Zoom-In (flash) Pan of the Galactic Center - (Runtime: 01:00) More Animations In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, NASA's Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space ...

... how amazing photos like this are made by amateur and professional astronomers alike, check out our story on the making of a mind-blowing space photo. Image: NASA, ESA, SSC, CXC, STScI See Also: Brilliant 360-Degree Panorama of the Milky Way Milky Way 50 Percent Larger, Astronomers Discover Map of Science Looks Like Milky Way Astronomers Make 5-Gigapixel Image of Milky Way Rogue Black Holes ...

... near the galactic core of the Milky Way. The image combines pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: NASA, ESA, SSC, CXC, and STScI A giant composite image of the Milky Way’s center has been taken by NASA’s three Great Observatories — the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The ...

... In this spectacular image, observations using infrared light and X-ray light see through the obscuring dust and reveal the intense activity near the galactic core. Image credit: NASA, ESA, SSC, CXC, and STScI NASA’s Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy (PhysOrg) (PhysOrg.com) — A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being ...

NASA / ESA / SSC / CXC / STScI Click for video: Color-coded images from NASA's three Great Observatories — the Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes — are combined to produce this spectacular view of the Milky Way galaxy's central region. Click on the image to watch a video about the image from the Space Telescope Science Institute. NASA has blended three views of ...

... Long Count on December 21, 2012-shown here in glyphs on a composite image of the Maya site of Chichén Itzá-is thought by some to mark the end of the world as we know it. (Aaron Logan/flickr, STScI/NASA) On December 21, 2012, thousands of pilgrims, many in organized "sacred tour" groups, will flock to Chichén Itzá, Tikal, and a multitude of other celebrated sites of ancient America ...

... out of fuel to sustain the nuclear reactions in its core. This Hubble image was taken in November 2008 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The colors in the image represent a range of emissions coming from the clouds of the nebula: red represents nitrogen, green represents hydrogen, and blue represents oxygen. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team, STScI/AURA) More (see this on Google Sky)

... in its core. This Hubble image was taken in November 2008 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The colors in the image represent a range of emissions coming from the clouds of the nebula: red represents nitrogen, green represents hydrogen, and blue represents oxygen. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team, STScI/AURA) Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2009 - The Big Picture

Image: This Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 1275, a galaxy located in the center of the Perseus cluster. The red threadlike filaments are composed of cool gas suspended by a magnetic field. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Larger image read more

Hubble sees NGC 4710. Click for a larger version. Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. Goudfrooij (STScI) This past January the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble took this image of the galaxy NGC 4710.  The galaxy is about 60 million light-years away in the direction of Coma Berenices. The galaxy is pretty much edge on and one of the striking things about it is the “X” pattern ...

... 's equatorial cloud tops. Farther to the left, and off Saturn's disk, are the bright moon Dione and the fainter moon Enceladus. These pictures were taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 when Saturn was at a distance of roughly 1.25 billion km (775 million mi) from Earth. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team, STScI/AURA).We live in interesting times don't you think