This beautiful image gives a new look at Stephans Quintet, a compact group of galaxies discovered about 130 years ago and located about 280 million light years from Earth.

We start with an optical and infrared image that shows the crowded area around the object known as GRS 1915+105, or GRS 1915 for short.

This sequence begins with an infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope of the central region of the Milky Way.

This image contains one of the most complex galaxy clusters known, which is located about 5.4 billion light years from Earth.

NGC 4194 is a galaxy that is found about 110 million light years from Earth.

Chandra's X-ray image of the Tarantula Nebula gives scientists a close-up view of the drama of star formation and star evolution.

A small dense object is responsible for the remarkably complex and intriguing structures seen in this image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

NGC 604 is a divided neighborhood in the galaxy M33, where some 200 hot, young massive stars reside.

The Crab Nebula is one of the best-known images ever taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

This image of the spiral galaxy Messier 101 is a composite of observations from NASA's three Great Observatories.