Recharge Your Cosmic Awe With These Images Of Galaxies In Deep Space




Merging galaxies can contain multiple active supermassive black holes


This incredible image reveals two galaxies that orbit the Milky Way


This pocket-sized galaxy may be the most distant yet

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have discovered the most distant galaxy seen in the universe. Called MACS0647-JD, the galaxy is 13.3 billion light years from Earth — which means it formed only 420 million years after the big bang. And just as remarkably, it's only 600 light-years wide,… » 11/16/12 8:00am 11/16/12 8:00am