This cosmic skyrocket is actually a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star

This photo of a dying red giant star depicted an unexpected spiral structure around its center.

This flare traveled at an astonishing 900 miles per second, and connected with Earth's magnetic environment, causing aurora to appear on the night of Sept. 3.

Astronomers discovered a "super-Jupiter" seen in the upper left of this image around the bright star Kappa Andromedae.

This stunning photo shows the moon and Earth's atmosphere as seen from the International Space Station.

M101 The pinwheel galaxy

This composite uses a number of images of the Earth's surface taken by instruments onboard the Suomi NPP satellite

This cloud of glowing gas is about 7,500 light years from Earth and includes several of the brightest and heaviest stars known.

Carina Nebula

Centaurus A is a massive elliptical galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its heart. It's about 12 million light years away in the southern constellation of Centaurus.

NASA released the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun's corona.

Mars Hand Lens Imager

This stunning view of Earth reveals the planet at night in unprecedented detail, earning it the nickname, "Black Marble

. Globular clusters are some of the oldest structures in the universe, and the stars in NCG 6362 are around 10 billion years old

Described as a "dusty curtain" or "ghostly apparition," mysterious reflection nebula VdB 152 is very faint

Located 650 light years from Earth, the Helix nebula is the cosmic remains of a dying star.

Super massive blackholes and galaxies

The crew aboard the International Space Station captured this extraordinary nighttime image from space while overlooking Moscow

NASA released a high-resolution shot of the dark dunes and layered rock at the base of Mars' Mount Sharp,

Called the Pencil Nebula, this streak of vibrant red and blue is part of a ring of wreckage resulting from a supernova explosion that occurred 11,000 years ago.

This image shows a part of a vast dark cloud of interstellar dust called the Pipe Nebula.

Cyclone over Saturn The camera was pointing toward Saturn from approximately 224,618 miles away.

The view was captured at a distance of approximately 1.5 million miles from Saturn.

Queensland, Australia's Total solar eclipse

NASA's Hubble Telescope captured this image of Eta Carinae, a binary star system.

Mammoth Tarantula Nebula is an interstellar cloud made up of helium, hydrogen, dust and gases.

The helmet-shaped nebula is around 15,000 light-years away from Earth.

Dying Star Camelopardalis

A brilliant shot of Venus crossing the sun. Hinode spacecraft captured the image

Milky Way