This edge-on galaxy, called ESO 243-49, is home to a mid-sized black hole that may have been stripped off of a cannibalized dwarf galaxy.
Even stars that appear static are subject to change -- some because the gas disc from their death throes periodically obscure their brilliance.
Mating of NASA's NuSTAR observatory to its Pegasus rocket is underway.
February is Black History Month, and to mark the occasion, we recently sat down with John Johnson, scientist at NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
New images from the Planck mission show islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy.
02.22.12 - Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres had been found only in gas form.
02.08.12 - The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids.
Audio and video podcasts on NASA missions looking for answers deep into the cosmos.