Spectacular: Galaxy M81, located approximately 12 million light-years from Earth, hosts a black hole around 70 million times the mass of our Sun.. (Making it about 17 times more massive than the one at the centre of our own galaxy.) (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

The rocky planets of our solar system in perspective. (From left to right: Earth, Venus, Mars and Mercury) Did you expect Mars to be this tiny?

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Stunning: The Eagle Nebula This soaring pillar rises about 9.5 light-years, roughly 90 trillion kilometers high! Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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Fascinating: Saturn’s moon Enceladus Just 1/50,000th of Earth’s mass, yet a remarkable world. A reachable subsurface ocean, active chemistry, and ample energy may make Enceladus one of the solar system’s most valuable places (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI)

Fascinating: The sharpest view yet of the Egg Nebula, a preplanetary nebula formed as a Sun-like star nears the end of its life. It will eventually reveal a white dwarf and expand into a planetary nebula. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Balick (University of Washington)

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Some cosmic perspective... Lest we forget

A deep image of part of the Virgo cluster has revealed monumental tendrils of ionized hydrogen gas 400,000 light-years long connecting the elliptical galaxy M86 (right) and the disturbed spiral galaxy NGC 4438 (left) (Credit: Tomer Tal and Jeffrey Kenney/Yale University and NOAO/AURA/NSF)

Spectacular: Saturn and its moon Mimas (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill)

A cloud of gas and dust shaped like a cosmic bat, captured at ESO’s Paranal Observatory with VST in visible light and extra infrared detail from VISTA. The red glow is ionised hydrogen powered by newborn stars, and the “wings” and “body” are RCW 94 and RCW 95. (Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team/VVV team)

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Hubble captured the largest planet-forming disk ever seen: a dusty, edge-on 'hamburger' 640 billion km wide. Wisps surge far above and below it, exposing chaotic planet birth 1,000 light-years away. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, K. Monsch (CfA). Image processing: J. DePasquale (STScI)

Gorgeous: Beyond the Milky Way, N159 is one of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s biggest stellar nurseries. This close-up shows bright newborn stars lighting the gas red, while dark dust cuts through the scene like ink. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Indebetouw)

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Spectacular infrared view of the Sh2-54 nebula! The clouds of dust and gas, normally apparent in visible light, are less evident here. In infrared, we can see the light of the stars behind the nebulae now piercing through. (Credit: ESO/VVVX)

Fascinating: Here’s how our solar system’s orbits compare in size to the supermassive black holes M87* and Sagittarius A* (their “shadows” as imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope). (Credit: EHT collaboration, acknowledgment: Lia Medeiros, xkcd)

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Mind-boggling! A 50-trillion-km (5 light-year) long section of the western wall in the Carina Nebula, as observed with adaptive optics on the Gemini South telescope (Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

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This is jaw-dropping: Earth as seen from Saturn (Credit: NASA JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

Saturn's rings are not as calm as they look: The Hubble telescope discovered a rain of icy particles is affecting the huge planet's weather, heating its atmosphere. (Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA & L. Ben-Jaffel)

This beautiful image shows the dense heart of the Milky Way stretched out above one of the Auxiliary Telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) (Credit: Y. Beletsky/ESO)

3C 397 is a fascinating supernova remnant that spans about 50 light-years in width. Its boxy shape was likely formed when heated remains of the exploded star crashed into the cooler gas in its surroundings (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CXC/Univ of Manitoba/S.Safi-Harb et al.)

'The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home' - Carl Sagan

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Gorgeous: NGC 4388, a Virgo cluster galaxy seen edge-on about 60 million light years away, displays a glowing gas plume stripped from its disk by pressure from hot intracluster medium as it moves through the cluster. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Veilleux, J. Wang, J. Greene)

Take a closer look at Barnard 68, a remarkable molecular cloud that looks like a cosmic “hole” cut into a field of stars. Inside, it is astonishingly cold: about 16 K (−257 °C / −431 °F). This makes Barnard 68 one of the coldest known places in space! (Credit: ESO)

Fascinating: Stars orbiting the black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy viewed over a period of nearly 20 years (Credit: ESO/GRAVITY Collaboration)

This is JW39, a “jellyfish galaxy” drifting more than 900 million light-years away in Coma Berenices. It looks calm, almost luminous, but this view is a snapshot of a galaxy under pressure. A thread 🧵

Gorgeous: NGC 7496, a barred spiral galaxy over 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus. This dusty galaxy harbours an active galactic nucleus (a supermassive black hole consuming gas at its centre). (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST team)

The exotic stellar population of Westerlund 1! (The diffraction spikes are caused by the telescope’s optics.) (Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), M. G. Guarcello (INAF-OAPA) and the EWOCS team)

Fascinating: NGC 2207 (a pair of colliding spiral galaxies) in infrared (Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI); Optical: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI); Infrared image: NASA, JPL-Caltech; X-ray image: NASA, CXC, SAO, S. Mineo et al.)

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A stunning deep view of the Veil supernova remnant and the cosmic scenery around it! (Video by Universal-Sci - Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 - Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)

Spectacular: At a distance of about 12 million light-years, the celebrated Messier 83 (the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy) unveils graceful spiral arms It displays a high rate of star formation and host 6 detected supernovae (Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA - T.A. Rector, D. de Martin & M. Zamani)

NGC 4571, a gorgeous, star-packed spiral galaxy about 60 million light-years away. Its dusty spiral arms are lit up with vivid pink nebulae, glowing star-forming regions filled with newly born stars. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Belfiore, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team)

This gorgeous image of NGC 1232 shows its 200,000-light-year-wide structure, with a reddish core, blue spiral arms, and a distorted companion galaxy All located about 60 million light-years away in the Eridanus constellation (Credit: ESO)

The spectacular Sombrero Galaxy, located 30 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (Video by Universal-Sci - Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll)

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A striking WFC3 image of the Small Magellanic Cloud, captured using four different filters. Each filter highlights a different range of wavelengths, and together they blend into a vivid, multicolored scene of dust drifting through a star-filled field. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray)

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This is all that remains of a massive star. Just 800 light-years from Earth, the Vela supernova remnant is one of the nearest examples of these spectacular explosions. (Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)

A spectacular view of NGC 6334, also known as the Cat's Paw Nebula (Video by Universal-Sci - Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

A breathtaking view of N159, one of the largest star-forming cloud complexes in the LMC, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. This image shows just a small part of the region; the full N159 complex spans more than 150 light-years from end to end. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Indebetouw)

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