The Butterfly: What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to nearly 20 000 degrees Celsius. The gas is tearing across space at more than 950 000 kilometres per hour — fast enough to travel from Earth to the Moon in 24 minutes!

Cartwheel Galaxy: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a fresh view of how the Cartwheel Galaxy has changed over billions of years.

Carina's mountains and valleys: This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula.

Andromeda Galaxy: The nearest cosmic neighbor of our Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda is located about 2.5 million light-years away.

Centaurus A: Also known as NGC 5128 or Caldwell 77, Centaurus A lies the constellation of Centaurus and was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop in 1826. The galaxy is located about 11-13 million light-years away from earth.

'Bubbles' in Milky Way: Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered a gigantic, mysterious structure in our galaxy which looks like a pair of bubbles extending above and below our galaxy's center. Each lobe is 25,000 light-years tall and the whole structure may be only a few million years old.

Messier 81: The magnificent spiral arms of the nearby galaxy Messier 81 are highlighted in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.