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A cosmic painting - NASA's Voyager 1 took this photo in 1979, showing the massive anticyclone that is Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The storm is 3.5x the size of Earth, and is equally as beautiful as it is tumultuous.

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Saturn's summer sunlight - The Cassini spacecraft provided one of the last looks at Saturn in 2016, after having arrived in 2004.

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A two-hour long solar flare - You can't see it but the sun's surface is actually spitting and spouting solar flares and coronal ejections, like this two-hour long activity captured from 2017.

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Twisted cosmic knot - What you're seeing is the result of a collision between two galaxies, causing clouds of gas to compress and stir, resulting in the formation of a star!

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An oldie but a goodie - NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter's moon, Europa, in the late '90s.

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A massive star that exploded 8,000 years ago - Expanding remains of the Veil Nebula are currently 110 light-years across, covering six full moons on the sky as seen from Earth. And it's just a short 2,100-light-year trip away from us!

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ET goes home - The Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft was successfully captured by the ISS's Canadarm2, bringing more than 7,600 lbs (3,447 kg) of research and supplies with it.

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The death of a low-mass star - The Calabash Nebula is the result of a star transforming from a red giant to a planetary nebula, blowing gas and dust into space in a breathtaking display. 

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The Great Red Spot - Jupiter's distinguishing feature was captured at a distance of 10,274 mi (16,534 km) from the tops of the clouds of the planet.

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Dione - The Cassini spacecraft captured Saturn's moon Dione and all her pores. She wasn't ready for the photo! 

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The Crab Nebula - This stunning composite image of a supernova remnant was put together using data from five telescopes and almost the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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One of 16 sunrises the ISS sees in a day - Each one is special, particularly because each one means more solar charge for the station!

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An alternative image of spring - The dunes in the northern hemisphere of Mars are covered in snow and dry ice until the spring sun shines, the ice cracks, and escaping gas carries dark sand out from the dune below.

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A rare close-up of evidence of water on Mars - Dark narrow streaks on the walls of the Garni crater on Mars are linked to the first pieces of evidence that water may flow on the planet's surface during its summer months.

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The Nili Fossae region on Mars - One of the most colorful regions of the planet is located on the northwest rim of the Isidis impact basin. Prime real estate for the humans planning to move!

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Distance makes the heart grow fonder - Earth's gorgeous Aurora borealis display only gets better from space. If you want to learn more about this magical natural phenomenon, click here.

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Before the Grand Finale - The Cassini spacecraft lingers above Saturn's northern hemisphere just before making its final dive.

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Meet Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Rhea, and Mimas - The quintet of Saturn's moons!

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The Bubble Nebula - Located 7,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia, the Bubble Nebula is a whopping seven light-years across. The nebula also gets excited by the hot central star, causing it to glow! Aw.

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A supermassive black hole - At the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, located over 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) is shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image released on January 8, 2016. The galaxy's orientation clearly reveals the galaxy's striking spiral structure: a flat and dust-mottled disc surrounding a bright galactic bulge. NGC 4845's glowing center hosts a gigantic version of a black hole, known as a supermassive black hole.

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Merging neutron stars - Based on a real event detected in a galaxy 130 million light-years away, NASA released a stunning illustration of a hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris forming before two neutron stars collide.

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In a galaxy 50 million light-years away... - The NGC 4536 galaxy is a hub of extreme star formation situated in the constellation of Virgo.

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What 17,500 mph looks like - Astronauts on the ISS captured star trails and blurred terrestrial lights in this time exposure as they sailed around planet Earth.

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The Tarantula Nebula - This cluster contains hundreds of young blue stars, including the most massive star to ever be detected in the universe as of yet.

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Jupiter's Northern Lights - High-energy particles on the pole of Jupiter form a brilliant collection of stunning Auroras in this NASA composite. 

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Like a spaceship twisting through the galaxy on warp speed - NGC 4394, a barred spiral galaxy situated about 55 million light-years from Earth, has bright spiral arms peppered with young blue stars, dark cosmic dust, and bright, fuzzy regions of star formations.

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Life on Mars - Landscapes associated with gullies and ridges that look like terrestrial moraines suggest that these deep craters on Mars may be rich with ice!

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Dunes on Mars - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the formation of Dunes on the wildly variant planet surface.

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Mars is edgy - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter also captured rugged cliff edges on the planet, making for a stunning visual texture. 

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A chance to look directly at the sun! - NASA's Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory Ahead collects images in several wavelengths of light that are invisible to the human eye, so you can look at the sun.

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Stormy surface - In a composite image assembled from 12 photographs, Saturn's huge northern storm twists along its surface in a gorgeous display.

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Hurricane Irma from above - The record Category 5 storm was captured driving toward Florida, passing the eastern end of Cuba. It looks much more beautiful and calm from space! 

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Superstar - The super star cluster Westerlund 1 is home to one of the largest stars ever discovered—a red supergiant with a radius over 1500x that of our Sun!

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Don't forget about Pluto! - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was 476,000 mi from Pluto's surface when it took this photo in 2015. 

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Subtropical storms from space - The Alberto storm is pictured closing in on the Florida Panhandle in May 2018. 

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The farthest individual star ever seen - The Hubble Space Telescope caught a blue supergiant star called Icarus, the farthest star humans have yet to see. The panels show the star becoming brighter as the years progress. 

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Weird little things seen on Earth - The International Space Station's view of solar evaporation ponds outside the city of Moab, UT, reveals stunning and bizarre colors. Check out some more fascinating aerial views of the US!

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The earliest detection of oxygen in the universe -

NASA released an artistic depiction of a young galaxy A2744_YD4 which was once rich with dust that gave insight into the births and deaths of the very first stars.

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Dwarf galaxy - NASA captured an incredibly picturesque image of the dwarf galaxy named NGC 5949.

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Fires as seen from outer space - Taken in July 2018, this satellite photo shows light from the County Fire along with the smoke streaming southwest toward San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

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A cosmic sparkling ring - The heart of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097 is surrounded by a bright star-forming ring. Remember that when you're waiting in traffic this week.

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Views from the ISS - NASA astronaut Scott Kelly spent an incredible 520 days in space, but at least he had one of the best seats in the galaxy. 

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What outer space plasma looks like - NASA released an artist's depiction of a black hole surrounded by a disk of orbital material, and with a jet of hot gas flowing into it, called plasma!

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You may recognize this from 'The Martian' - A crewed mission written into the best-selling novel and Hollywood film lands in this region of Mars called the Acidalia Planitia.

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Us, as seen from Saturn -

The Cassini spacecraft took a rare picture of the pale blue dot from beneath Saturn's rings. Everything seems less stressful when you look at it from Saturn.

Check out the daily lives of astronauts in space!

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