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Starry spiral in a familiar neighbourhood

ESO's ELT telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile

Globular cluster targets that revealed “forever young” stars

Sextans A PAHs pull-out (NIRCam and MIRI image)

A neighbouring vista of stellar birth

Dwarf stars in a glittering sky

Galactic gas makes a getaway

Massive stars make their mark

Webb observes a dance of dwarf galaxies

Baby stars blowing bubbles

The Milky Way's great wave illustrated

Edge-on view of our galaxy's great wave

The Milky Way’s great wave in motion

The smouldering heart of a celestial cigar

Gaia sees stellar nurseries (animation still)

Gaia’s star-formation map (slider)

Gaia sees stellar nurseries (animation still 2)

Gaia’s star-formation map (zoom-in)

Gaia’s star-formation map

Zoom into Gaia’s star-formation map (highlighted)

Cloudy cluster

Immense stellar jet in Milky Way outskirts

Anatomy of the Milky Way

Webb image of a glittering glimpse of star birth

A sea monster and a Tarantula

A supernova-rich spiral

Swirling spiral in Hydra

Digging up a galactic time capsule

A starburst shines in infrared (MIRI)

Small but mighty

Starry spectacle

Milky Way and Andromeda encounters

Paired pinwheel seen solo

Capturing candyfloss clouds

Hubble observes new tidal disruption event (January 2025 image)

Gaia spots odd star family

Webb: A visual feast of galaxies, from infrared to X-ray

A glittering cluster shines again

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 5335

Hubble spies a cosmic pillar in the Eagle Nebula

Sombrero Galaxy

Swan song for stars and cameras

Milky Way Center (MeerKAT and Webb)

The Cosmic Tornado / Herbig-Haro 49/50 (Webb telescope image)

Colourful clouds of a nearby neighbour

Euclid Deep Field North – preview

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