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Orion Nebula's Trapezium cluster

Eta Carinae, a star that exploded casts off debris

Eta Carinae debris

Cygnus Loop Nebula

NGC 6210, planetary nebula

NGC 2264, Cone Nebula

M2-9, Twin Jet Nebula, a butterfly nebula

NGC 6537, Red Spider Nebula

Horsehead Nebula

NGC 1952, Crab Nebula pulsar imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

NGC 6369, a cosmic ghost

Months after a gamma-ray burst, the afterglow fades away

Hubble Deep Field image shows many hundreds of never-before seen galaxies

Artist's impression of how the very early Universe might have looked

Spiral Galaxy Messier 100

Cartwheel Galaxy, in the Sculptor constellation

Spiral Galaxy, with older more coloured stars in the central region

Galaxy collision in NGC 6745

NGC 5194, heart of the Whirlpool Galaxy

UGC 10214, Tadpole Galaxy

Hoag's Object, an unusual galaxy

Artist's impression of the birth of our Galaxy

Sagittarius constellation

When galaxies collide, as shown by Antennae galaxies

Orion Nebula's Trapezium cluster

Life cycle of stars

NGC 1850, Double cluster

Ghostly reflections in the Pleiades

Star clusters born in the wreckage of cosmic collisions

Comet Hale-Bopp

Colour-encoded map of asteroid Vesta

Jupiter's aurora shows luminescent gases

Neptune, a planet that has extreme weather

Jupiter's Great Red Spot

C/1999 Comet Linear fragments

Jupiter, with Great Red Spot visible

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 disintegrates

Ultraviolet view of Venus

Infrared view of Saturn

Jupiter with its moon Io passing in front of it

The Expedition 6 crew returned using the Soyuz TMA-1 spacecraft

The Expedition 6 crew returned using the Soyuz TMA-1 spacecraft

Mars at opposition (the Acidalia region)

Changing seasons on Saturn

The Space Shuttle Endeavour is backdropped over New Zealand as it approaches the International Space Station

Global dust storm on Mars

Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Astronaut Edward Lu

Observing a dayside proton auroral spot

Astronauts of the European Space Agency (ESA)

Circinus, an active galaxy

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