Also Known As The Seven Sisters And M45, The Pleiades Is An Open Star Cluster That Lies About 400 Light

Sharpless 129 is an H-alpha emission nebula commonly called the Flying Bat Nebula located in Cepheus very close to the famous IC 1396 (the nebula that contains the Elephant's Trunk). The large blue/green nebula inside it, which is over a degree long, is formally known as Ou4 but is colloquially called the Squid (or Giant Squid) Nebula.

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The distinctively fluted surface and elongated hills in this image in Medusae Fossae on Mars are caused by wind erosion of a soft fine-grained rock. Called yardangs, these features are aligned with the prevailing wind direction. This wind direction would have dominated for a very long time to carve these large-scale features into the exposed rock we see today. The image was acquired at 15:25 local Mars time on June 28, 2016, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 180 thousand light-years away. Image credit: Robert Gendler & Roberto Colombari.

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The Cartwheel Galaxy is a lenticular galaxy and ring galaxy about 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. It is an estimated 150,000 light-years diameter, and a mass of about 2.9–4.8 × 10⁹ solar masses; it rotates at 217 km/s.

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Great image of the Kolhar Dunes on Mars!

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Beautiful night-time shot of a landscape rock formation with the Milky Way covering the sky.

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The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus.

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This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, named the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

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The South Pole of Mars looks like a tasty ice cream!

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At the center of a spiral galaxy 11 million light-years away, the Hubble Telescope saw a bright, whitish patch surrounded by a mixture of stars, gas and dust.

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