NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet ©

Pleiades Star Cluster

Water droplets orbiting a charged metal sphere on the ISS.

NGC 7023, Iris Nebula

Wolf-Rayet 124 (NIRCam and MIRI composite image) by europeanspaceagency

Seagull Nebula Closeup in infrared

Grains of Cosmic Dust: the Eta Aquarids l Petr Horalek 

Strike a pose, vogue! 📸

The galaxy on the left looks like it went with extreme eye makeup, while the one on the right went with a more natural look. Together, they’re known as Arp 107, a pair of colliding galaxies.

The glamorous galaxy on the left is an extremely energetic galaxy with a very active core. Its small companion is connected to it by a faint “bridge” of gas and dust. This view was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton.

ALT TEXT: A pair of merging galaxies. The galaxy on the left has a single, large spiral arm curving out from the core toward 3 o’clock and wrapping counterclockwise, ending in a straighter line pointing toward the bottom of the frame. This arm is bright blue with shades of brown mixed in. The right-hand galaxy has a bright core that is approximately the same size as the galaxy at left, but only a tiny bit of very faint material surrounds it. A broad curtain of gas connects the two galaxies’ cores and hangs beneath them. Small stars and galaxies are scattered throughout the black background of space.

NGC 6334, Cat's Paw

NGC 1512 by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

Tom Killion.