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Webb, Hubble, Keck, and other telescopes gave us unprecedented views of the cosmos this year.

Explore the beauty of space with over 30 mesmerizing images, all handpicked from this year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

Images taken by the telescopes NIRCam and MIRI instruments show the gassy structure as never before.

It's been a year since the $10 billion observatory has started releasing scientific images.

A carbon-based ion—likely an important building block of interstellar carbon chemistry—was spotted in a protoplanetary disk 1,350 light-years away.

The Eagle Nebula, or Messier 16, is an area of active star formation about 5,700 light-years from Earth and is home to the iconic Pillars of Creation.

"How is it they live for eons in such harmony - the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their mind against someone they know?" -Thomas Aquinas

"Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?" -Lord Byron

“Man must rise above the Earth, to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.” -Socrates It's hard to believe that it's been nearly two years since we started our Messier Monday series, and so with only 110 objects to go through, we're actually starting to run out of objects! The most numerous type of object in the Messier Catalogue are the galaxies, but only a handful of those remain.

This portable telescope setup is ideal for intermediate amateur astronomers who want to get serious.