NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared cameras pierce the dust, revealing the stars at the Milky Way's crowded center, hidden from optical telescopes

Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Susan Stolovy (SSC/Caltech) et al.

NASA's SOFIA observed magnetic fields in Centaurus A, shown as streamlines over composite images from multiple telescopes in different wavelengths

Image Credit: NASA, Optical: European Southern Observatory (ESO) Wide Field Imager

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured the spiral arms of Messier 81, a galaxy in Ursa Major visible through binoculars or small telescopes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Using NASA's Fermi Telescope data, scientists found two giant bubbles, each 25,000 light-years tall, extending from our galaxy's center and just a few million years old

Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

This WISE image of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) shows mature stars in blue and dust from newborn stars in yellow and red, captured using four infrared wavelengths

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA