The Flame Nebula, also called NGC 2024, is a region of intense star formation about 1,400 light-years from Earth. The image shows the dark and dusty heart of the nebula, located in the constellation of Orion, in which numerous stars are present – Photo: Reproduction / NASA / ESA

The Giant Pillars of Creation are a collection of dust and hydrogen gas located in the Eagle Nebula, approximately 6,500 to 7,000 light-years from Earth. Images taken in December by the James Webb Telescope showed the pillars in greater detail than photographs taken by Hubble in 1995 and 2014. Photo: reproduction/NASA.

The Artemis 1 mission, which put the Orion spacecraft into orbit around the Moon, was able to get very close images of the Moon. This photograph, taken by the camera of the Orion spacecraft, shows the spacecraft heading for Earth during the satellite’s return flyby in a natural environment where craters can be seen – Photo: Reproduction/NASA

The star Zeta Ophiuchus is a giant star, 20 times more massive than the Sun, and located about 440 light-years from Earth. Some observations made by scientists suggest that this star was close to the orbit of another before it was ejected. Photo: reproduction/NASA/CXC.

Recorded in winter in the planet’s southern hemisphere, this crater on Mars is filled with carbon dioxide we know as “dry ice” — Photo: Reproduction/NASA/JPL-Caltech

The sunrise from space is a unique sight. The International Space Station recorded the first rays of a star in our system falling to Earth, being 202 km above Texas, in the USA. Photo: reproduction/NASA.

An image of the core of the globular cluster NGC 6638 was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. This cluster, which is a stable and closely related group of tens of thousands to millions of stars, is located in the constellation Sagittarius. The Hubble telescope has revolutionized the study of these clusters and made discoveries possible. Photo: reproduction/ESA/Hubble/NASA.

After a lengthy analysis by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, an image showing a pair of galaxy clusters believed to be one of the largest structures in the universe has come to light. This cluster, which contains hundreds of galaxies and huge amounts of hot gas and dark matter, is located about 2.8 billion light-years from Earth.

An image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the complexity of newborn stars. The star system is not visible in the center of the image due to the thick clouds that hide it, but Herbig-Haro objects HH 1, a glowing cloud above the star, and HH 2, a cloud in the lower right corner can be observed – Photo: Reproduction / ESA / Hubble / NASA

Another James Webb Infrared Achievement: Tarantula Nebula, a star-forming region never seen before, showing thousands of young stars for the first time – Photo: Reproduction/NASA/ESA/CSA

The auroras, whether boreal or southern, are also a sight to behold when viewed from space. This picture was taken by the International Space Station when it was at an altitude of 440 km above the Earth, more precisely between Australia and Antarctica. Photo: reproduction/NASA.