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This striking near-infrared view of the Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302) looks more delicate than in visible light. A dark, dusty band forms the “body,” hiding the ancient Sun-like core that makes the nebula glow. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Kastner, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)

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Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam, this shimmering “mountaintop” is actually cosmic dust It has been sculpted and slowly worn away by intense winds and radiation from nearby new-born stars. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, A. Pagan (STScI)

Gorgeous: Telescope support towers under the Milky Way (Credit: ESO/P. Horálek)

Stunning: A mid-infrared look at NGC 6072 shows concentric shells expanding around outflows from a dying central star - (the pinkish-white dot at the centre). (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

Is she spinning clockwise or anticlockwise? (Credit: Nobuyuki Kayahara)

A dramatic galaxy triplet takes centre stage in this image, capturing a three-way gravitational tug-of-war. Known as Arp 195, this system is featured in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, showcasing the universe’s more unusual galaxies. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton)

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Here's a mind-boggling perspective: A neutron star, 500,000 times heavier than Earth, is so compact that its diameter doesn't exceed that of New York City. (Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

Behold the beauty of the moth-like planetary nebula NGC 2899. This celestial structure features a diagonal, bipolar, cylindrical flow of gas, driven outward by intense radiation and stellar winds from a scorching white dwarf at its core Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)

Visualizing the immense scale of space - distances from Earth to the Moon and Mars. (The planets and the moon have been enlarged 20 times for visibility). (Credit: James O’Donoghue / NASA)

Gorgeous Blue Ring Nebula Located 6,300 light-years away in the constellation Hercules, the Blue Ring Nebula is thought to be a short-lived phase after the merger of two stars (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Seibert (Carnegie Institution for Science)/K. Hoadley (Caltech)/GALEX Team)

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Gorgeous: NGC 6000, a sparkling spiral galaxy in Scorpius In its core, stars are typically older and smaller; cooler, lower-mass stars appear redder, while hotter stars shine bluer (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko - Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç)

Peering deeper into the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334), a massive, nearby stellar nursery. Webb reveals a restless scene: young, massive stars are chiselling away at gas and dust, while their intense light floods the region with a blue-tinted glow. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

A spectacular near-infrared view of NGC 6537 a.k.a. the Red Spider Nebula! Planetary nebulae like the Red Spider Nebula form when ordinary stars like the Sun reach the end of their lives Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Astonishing: Hubble imaged these two overlapping spiral galaxies named SDSS J115331 and LEDA 2073461, which lie more than a billion light-years from Earth! (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Keel)

This impressive NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Trifid Nebula reveals a stellar nursery being torn apart by radiation from a nearby, massive star Credit: NASA and Jeff Hester (Arizona State University)

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Take a 15,000 light-year voyage to the Sh2-284 nebula. Here, in vast clouds of gas and dust, new stars are born Meanwhile, giant pillars, light-years across, are formed as winds from the young stars batter the surrounding material (Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team. Ack.: CASU)

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Fascinating: Arp 220 is the closest Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy (ULIRG) to Earth! It is the result of a collision between two galaxies which are now in the process of merging (Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans)

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A breathtaking pan of Cassiopeia A (a supernova remnant in the constellation Cassiopeia) Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University), T. Temim (Princeton University), I. De Looze (UGent), J. DePasquale (STScI), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), M. Zimani (ESA/Webb)

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Stunning: Globular cluster NGC 6717 Globular clusters have more stars in their centers than their outer fringes, as this image aptly demonstrates; the sparsely populated edges are in stark contrast to the sparkling mass of stars at its center (Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, A. Sarajedini)

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A stunning animation of UGC 2885 Credit: NASA, ESA, and B. Holwerda (University of Louisville)

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Pan of Arp-Madore 2026-424, showing the collision of two galaxies of equal size! Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and M. Durbin (University of Washington)

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This gorgeous scene of stellar creation, captured by Hubble, sits near the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula. It is the perfect laboratory to study the origin of massive stars (Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, I. Stephens)

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Absolutely stunning: The Carina Nebula (Credit: ESA, Hubble & NASA)

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Two immense galaxies colliding 50 million light-years from earth! Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Stunning picture! In the night sky over ESO's VLT observatory the Moon shines along with two bright companions - Venus and Jupiter. (Credit: ESO, Y. Beletsky)

Gorgeous shot: A bright meteor as seen from Maunakea (Credit: NOIRLab/AURA/NSF)

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Seeing Double: In Herbig-Haro object HH 797, what was believed to be one stellar jet is actually two separate outflows originating from a previously unknown binary star system. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, T. Ray (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

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The RCW 38 stellar cluster as seen in visible light. At these wavelengths, dust absorbs much of the light, obscuring large portions of the cluster from view. (Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin)

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An infrared image from the VLT in Chile shows Sagittarius C, a star-rich region near the Milky Way's center, revealing more young stars than expected. This helps solve the mystery of missing young stars, obscured by dust and gas clouds. (Credit: ESO/F. Nogueras-Lara et al.)

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What the Earth and Moon look like from Saturn - Earth is the blue point of light on the left; the Moon is fainter, white and on the right (Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechSpace Science Institute)