30 Breathtaking Images That Offer A Glimpse Of The Mysteries Of The Universe

Was Orion shooting from his belt? Seriously, that's a wonderful photo. How did the earth come out as a crescent, though, when it's flat? Shouldn't it have come out a slice of bread instead?

Well, Andromeda will seem brighter the closer it comes. Hang around for a couple of billion years, and you'll be able to see it very well.

Kissing fish nebula.

With a little hamburger bun in the centre. The dark line across the centre of the hamburger is the circum-stellar disk.

Hubble better give Saturn his aurora back! You don't mess with a god!

Anyone else seeing a guy in a pointy hat holding a teddy bear and riding a dragon, or did I just have too much wine with my dinner?

*Far side of the moon

Amazing to think Voyager was launched with less computing power than a smart watch, and it has just kept on going. It's now closer to the Oort Cloud than our solar system. I do sometimes think that the first alien contact we have will be an alien with Voyager embedded in it's equivalent of a bumper...

Now can I see the Maytag, Electrolux, Samsung and Haier galaxies, please?

Breathtaking and aren't those rings made up of space rocks spinning at phenomenal speed. Saturn has its cosmic moat.

It's looking back at us

Looks like an AMAZING cup of coffee

Just like the 'close ad' button on my phone.

I'm seeing a rather elegant hat. Anyone else?

That really puts things in perspective.

Gorgeous!

Finally. A proper name

Looks like a Christmas tree

Breathtaking

It looks like an Ansel Adams photograph.

I remember seeing the original Hubble version, and was in awe. The JWST makes it simply breathtaking.

I'm getting real Jules Verne vibes here. There is something very artistic about this. The other photos are stunning and gorgeous to look at, but this is almost quaint.

It’s really, really difficult to see Uranus 😉

How beyond awesome is this? It brings me to tears.

put it in the Louvre!

I can't help feeling like this is what Earth would look like, if Van Gogh had painted it!

I miss living in Egypt. Although I lived there in a much calmer and more open period

Gas giant? They're just missing a picture of my dad! ;)

The amazing hexagon of storms 🤩.

"My God, it's full of stars"

Jupiter kind of freaks me out

So an honest question - all the colors that are shown in these photos, are the nebula's, planets, galaxies truly those colors? I honestly thought I read somewhere that they weren't, they were "colored" for lack of a better word.

Showing Spain, Gibraltar and Morocco

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See? It DOES exist!

Looks moon cheese.gone moldy.

*waves at all the little swimmers*

How did the people in the past who named it know it looked like a dragon from space?

"Let's go, in and out, 20 minutes adventure." ;-)

The sun has an atmosphere?

*Chicxulub

This is by far my absolute favorite outer space picture. The nebulas and galaxies are fantastically beautiful, but the simplicity of this speaks to my heart. There's home.

Looks like a smooth beautiful pebble

The "six-years-old trying to draw a Heart Nebula"

*waves at all the little swimmers closer in*

Astronaut Scott Kelly needs to release Japan immediately!

Each one a star with its own solar system or a system that our brains can't understand. Twin planets joined by membranes. Planets that appear to fold in and out of themselves. Planets which change shape or disappear and where it's as normal as a tree is to us.

More info at https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0755a/?lang

The empire got the bright idea to repaint the death star to hide it from the rebels.

I can see a love heart!

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That is just strange.

It looks like an abstract painting.

I can't decide if I can see a dogs head or Darth Vader's helmet??

Can’t pop over for a weekend visit then?

Though strange we never se that giant arrow looking up to the skies! /jk

Beautiful but being destroyed 🤔

"Some of the best images of Uranus"....giggity

I think there's life on Pluto.

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Skull with light waves coming out of it.

(size not distance) THANK GOD!!!

Only missing Kerberos and Styx then.

Or, put there by Walt Disney