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The picture captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the distant galaxy merger IC 2431, which lies 681 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Cancer.

Over the past year, researchers mourned the loss of Arecibo and applauded the first helicopter flight on Mars. Plus, commercial spaceflight really took off.

NASAs Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new view of a stellar nursery known as the Chamaeleon Cloud Complex, which is illuminated by the bright blue light of young stars.

Hubble may have spotted a very rare phenomenon.

Image taken by the Hubble telescope shows two very distant galaxies circling each other to form the shape of the USS Enterprise

NASA releases image showing two interacting galaxies alongside a third, possibly interacting galaxy. NGC 7764A imagery by the Hubble Space Telescope.

In what was described as a "happy coincidence," the galaxies appear to have merged into the shape of the USS Enterprise.

Discussions about exploration of the cosmos by direct contact had already been on the table when University of California. For them, the idea of interstellar travel is not barely in the "realm of science fiction", but a possibility, not just in mere lunar and interplanetary missions, but through sending life outside of solar system.

Find a dark place. Lay back, look up and see what the cosmos has to offer.

A gorgeous year outside Earth.