NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

This artist's rendering gives us a glimpse into a cosmic nursery as a star is born from the dark, swirling dust and gas of this cloud.

This image shows two young brown dwarfs, objects that fall somewhere between planets and stars in terms of their temperature and mass.

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.