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Just in time for Halloween, we have new, ghostly views of the Cat's Eye Nebula haunting the outer reaches of the cosmos.

The Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) keeps its eye on the cosmos decades after being decommissioned.

Iceberg A-81 escaping the Weddell Sea and drifting near the edge of South Georgia's underwater shelf.

Rover tracks can be seen on the Martian surface, left behind by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a spectacular star-forming region glowing 161,000 light-years from Earth in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

The robotic Griffin lunar lander has passed a host of critical tests ahead of its first-ever moon mission, which is scheduled to launch later this year.

A satellite image of "Spider Crater" in Western Australia.

If you were approaching the edge of a spiral galaxy, arriving from afar through the cosmos, it might look something like this.

The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite mission captured a close-up of West Antarctica from its perch high above Earth.

What looks like a neon pink treble clef floating out in space is actually a bizarre source of radio waves spotted deep in the cosmos.