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CASSINI interplanetary space mission. View of the planet Saturn.

HUBBLE telescope. A star cluster made up of hundreds of thousands of stars, all bound together by gravity.

HUBBLE telescope. Here, in the rubble of a supernova explosion, HUBBLE highlights a neutron star pushed out of the center of the nebula.

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this stunning view of Jupiter during its 22nd close flyby of the planet.

DEEP SPACE. The iconic Pillars of Creation reach out here like a ghostly hand (a spine-chilling prospect: these "fingers" are some 5 light-years long!).

DEEP SPACE. This photograph reveals the intricate details that remain in the remains of a dying star.

DEEP SPACE. A superb photographic picture that allows scientists to realize in Deep Space the detection of the crucial carbon molecule in a region of the Orion Nebula.

DEEP SPACE. The Webb Space Telescope highlights gravitational arcs in the "El Gordo" galaxy cluster.

DEEP SPACE. Lost in Deep Space, a dwarf galaxy appears amid countless white stars, interspersed with yellow and orange galaxies of various shapes, dotting the black background

DEEP SPACE. Magnificent photographs of the iconic "Pillars of Creation".

DEEP SPACE. The pillars of creation appear here in this extraordinary new view, where dozens of newly-formed stars twinkle like dewdrops

The South Ring Nebula, taken by the Webb telescope. A black background shows the planetary nebula as a distorted oval that is slightly tilted from top left to bottom right.

This image compares views of a spiral galaxy captured by the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes.

Fantastic image of the Horsehead Nebula taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which focuses on a portion of the horse's "mane" about 0.8 light-years wide.