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Launching experiments in rockets from the Arctic Circle gives ample opportunity to view the Northern Lights.

The planetary nebula ESO 456-67 shows the beauty that can be created by death, the death of a sun-like star.

Mountain sides of great water-ice blocks, varying from dark to light and some possibly revealing layers of Pluto crust, squeezed together to create the "al-Idrisi mountains."

As the Venus Express spacecraft zoomed past the south pole of the a stunning photo of this swirling vortex

Menzel 2, a planetary nebula, arrives at its final stages of life as a white dwarf.

A cosmic cloud known as Mon R2 holds bubbles of ionized hydrogen and baby stars at its center.

In deep space NGC 2359, a glowing cloud of gas and dust takes the shape of Thor's mythical helmet and the colors declare the composition of the beautiful patches.

Combining the power of several telescopes, scientists discovered a magnificent image of the black hole in Hercules A.

This computer simulation shows what two merging black holes would look like — gravitational waves rippling away from the impact.