At first glance, a sky full of stars... Look closer: most of these tiny points of light are actually galaxies! This Rubin Observatory view captures around 10 million of them, each with a story to uncover. (Video by WorldAndScience - Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA)

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A true spectacle! The Cigar Galaxy, Messier 82, glows fiercely — five times brighter than our home galaxy! Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI) and P. Puxley (NSF)

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Extraordinary: At a distance of 100 million light-years, the spiral galaxy NGC 7714 reveals contorted arms and a golden haze, the chaotic signature of a merger with NGC 7715 (just beyond the image). Credit: ESA, NASA - Acknowledgement: A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Gorgeous: The dark cloud Chamaeleon I holds pockets of starlight. Three reflection nebulae glow within its depths, reflecting light from new-born stars in one of Earth’s nearest stellar nurseries (Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA - T.A. Rector, M. Zamani & D. de Martin)

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A striking close-up of two Virgo Cluster galaxies captured by the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. (Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA)

Spectacular: The inner region of NGC 247, a modest spiral galaxy roughly 11 million light-years distant in the constellation Cetus. NGC 247 is one of the Sculptor Group galaxies, which also includes the celebrated Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253). (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA)

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Behold UGC 12591, a giant S0/Sa galaxy 400 million light-years distant in the Pisces–Perseus Supercluster. Holding hundreds of billions of suns (~4x the Milky Way), it whirls at 1.8 million km/h! (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA)

Celestial beauty: NGC 248 resides in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy of the Milky Way, around 200,000 light-years distant. (Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, K. Sandstrom (University of California, San Diego), and the SMIDGE team.)

This spectacular spiral, Messier 96, lies 35 million light-years away, its lopsided arms and displaced core the hallmarks of gravitational encounters with galaxies close by. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and the LEGUS Team - Acknowledgement: R. Gendler)

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Extraordinary: NGC 1755 appears like salt scattered on a black backdrop, extending 120 light-years wide. Still, the cluster falls in the smaller class. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Milone, G. Gilmore)

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Stunning: A nighttime view of Cairo from the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA Earth Observatory)

Spectacular: High-altitude observation of the STS 51-A shuttle Discovery launch, with the pad shining as a central beacon in a cloud assembly; the Discovery shuttle is seen as a light at the pinnacle of a smoke shaft, bordered by dense cloud layers. (Credit: NASA)