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Both dense and whispy clouds streak across the left side of the image with bright stars peaking through. A few stars stand out as brighter than the rest. A tight cluster of stars sits to the top right of the image. The background is covered with stars.
An orange landscape is seen with many darker rocks visible in the foreground. Toward the image top is a large rock outcrop with orange sand on top. The outcrop may appear to resemble a large turtle. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
The featured image shows the star forming nebula NGC 3576 in multiple false colors. A central dust structure may appear similar to the Statue of Liberty. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
The featured image shows the disk from NASA's Genesis Mission embedded in sand with two helicopters visible in the distance. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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A bright spiral galaxy shows stars and colorful clous of gas in red, green and blue colors. The background is a dark field of stars.
Lightning spreads like roots from a tree up into the atmosphere from the top of a cloud. Stars are scattered across the night sky above and the desert sits below the cloud deck.
A large rocky object floats in dark space. The object is gray and has many small protrusions. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
A starfield surrounds a complex background galaxy. The galaxy centre is surrounded by numerous shells, some circular and concentric, but others colourful and filamentary. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
A starfield surrounds a complex background galaxy. The galaxy center is surrounded by numerous shells, some circular and concentric, but others colorful and filamentary. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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There is a dark cloud of gas and dust resembling a bat with outstretched wings in the middle of the image. Two spots appear to glow from within where there are young stars. A different more diffuse glow appears to outline just below the bat and extending outward from the bats head. The background is scattered with stars.
The featured image shows the nebulae NGC 6188 and NGC 6164. The former is a star forming region near the image center filled with glowing gas and laced with dust that resembles dragons. The smaller NGC 6164 is seen on the lower right is an emission nebula created by a single massive star in its center. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
A distant person stands on a rocky landscape. Above is a starry sky. Rising up from the horizon on either side of the person are bright arching spires. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
An unusually colored ball is shown against a dark background. The ball has numerous craters but a very large cratered near the lower center. Much of the ball is light colored, but around the right and top it is green-brown, with a border area that seems splattered. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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Against a bright field of stars, a yellow nebula with blue details, a purple filament on the left and a bright star on the right.
A handful of different types of clouds splatter across the image, with bright stars embedded within. Dust blocks some parts of the clouds. Many small stars cover the background, with a cluster of them sitting in the bottom right beneath all the clouds.
Dark space surrounds a gray peanut sized object. The object has a surface that has many rough nodules but also some relatively smooth sections. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
A starfield surrounds an unusual object with a band of diffuse white crossing horizontally. Emanating out from the band toward both the top and the bottom of the frame is an orange and red nebula. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
The Sun is pictured in yellow with surface structure. In the middle of the frame are many circuitous dark spots. The edge of the Sun is visible at the top of the image. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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A landscape with an open horizon shows sunset color and coverging rays of light.
A starfield surrounds a large and colorful nebula. Red spokes poke out from the outside of the nebula in some directions, while a blue haze appears in other directions. The nebula center is multicolored. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
An image of the sky over the Netherlands taken every 15 seconds during 2025. Visible are night, day, solstices, equinoxes, moonglow, the blue hour, and more. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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A sunset sky is seen above a dark sloping horizon. A tall tree is on the left. The sky is partly cloudy with a crescent Moon on the upper right and a bright planet just to the right of the tree. Next to the tree in the foreground on the right is an easel showing the famous van Gogh painting Starry Night. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
A composite image shows a field of stars on a dark background, together X-rays in blue and radio in red
A gaseous structure that resembles a hamster wheel sits near the center of the image. Inside is a bright white dwarf star. There is a larger asymmetric gas bubble surrounding the inner nebula. A galaxy sits to the bottom right. The background is composed of foreground and background stars, as well as distant galaxies.
Saturn is shown up close with its ring plane running up diagonally from the lower right. Two small moons are visible. Near the top of the planet are large dark bands that are shadows of the rings onto Saturn's cloud tops. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
The disk of the Sun is shown with a rocket launching through it. The rising rocket shows a plume behind it and three unusual waves curve around its top tip. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
A sunset sky is shown in four vertical bands. Two bright planets appear getting closer together from left to right. The dates of the images appear at the bottom. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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A delicate nebula in shades of blue and purple shines in front of a dark field of stars. The shape of the nebula resembles a mermaid.
Gas, dust, and stars are scattered across the image. A dark silhouette that looks like an eagle swoops downward towards three small pillars of gas. Other gas and dust pillar-like features reach out of the surrounding nebula. A central cluster of stars sits beneath the eagle silhouette.
A starfield surrounds a complex nebula with many red and blue filaments. Dark streams of dust also populate the nebula. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
A starfield shows many red nebulas near the center. Running vertically up the left side are about 20 images of a comet, with the head towards the image bottom. Successively higher images of the comet show successively shorter tails. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
The silhouette of a person appears on a hill with a starfield in the background. The person's arms are extended to each side, and near each hand is a bright orb -- which are really Jupiter (on the right) and Venus on the left. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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A spherical nebula shows concentric rings of different colors over a dark background with a few stars.
Wispy clouds of dust and gas in the Milky Way obscure the image. Milky Way stars are scattered across the image. Andromeda is a tight spiral of gas, dust, and stars that occupies the middle background. A couple smaller galaxies look like small bright clumps of stars near Andromeda.
The starfield is filled with many red nebulas, areas of dark dust, and light blue filaments. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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A starfield surrounds three large brown pillars of dark dust. The pillars are shown vertically. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
Two images of Earth's Moon are shown, both in full phase. The left moon image, labelled Supermoon, is slightly larger than the right moon image, labelled Micromoon. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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A bubble of gas occupies the center of the image with a few stars in the fore- and background. On opposite sides of the bubble, there are two regions where the gas pinches inward. This makes the inner region of the nebula appear like a peanut inside a larger ring.
A starfield is shown showing two prominent galaxies. Near the top is a bright spiral galaxy with several blue spiral arms. Near the bottom is a fainter circular galaxy with a bright center. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
A starfield with a blue background shows several unusual brown globs. They are generally irregularly shaped. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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On a dark background, galaxies are shown as fuzzy white dots. A bright blue spiral expands from the center. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available.
A dark and whispy cloud blocks the background light from surrounding gas and stars. It resembles the head, snout, and jaws of a wolf.