Each blog installment will focus its attention on one image of space that evokes strong emotions about the grandeur of the universe. What thoughts did the image evoke in you the very first time you saw it? What is our place in the universe? Are there universes parallel to our own?
Globular Cluster M55 is close to the location in the sky where the Wow Signal originated. Courtesy: NASA
An extreme star cluster bursts into life in the Carina Spiral arm of the Milky Way, well adapted for life in our galaxy. Courtesy: NASA
Astronaut Bruce McCandless is floating in space. Courtesy: NASA
Once a normal galaxy like our Milky Way galaxy, the Cartwheel Galaxy underwent a head-on collision with another galaxy, never to be the same. Courtesy: NASA
Astronaut Harrison Schmitt explores another world beyond Earth, establishing a human presence there. Courtesy: NASA
Images from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft's Thermal Emission Imaging System have shown entrances to large caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano. Courtesy: NASA
The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found the first meteorite on the surface of a planet beyond Earth. Courtesy: NASA
The tracks of the Spirit rover acquired from a position roughly three-fourths the way between "Bonneville Crater" and the base of "Columbia Hills" on Mars. Courtesy: NASA
Hubble peers far back in time to galaxies nearly newly born, Courtesy: NASA
Hubble portrait of Jupiter taken in the near infrared, showing some of Jupiter's own family of moons, all relatives within our Sun's planetary system. Courtesy: NASA
Gliese 710, an orange dwarf with half the Sun's mass, will eventually pass through our solar system. Courtesy: Russia's RT News
A ring of dark matter mapped onto a Hubble picture of a galactic cluster, allowing us to see what cannot be seen Courtesy: NASA
Protoplanetary disks likely will add planets to the universe as in Hubble's view of the Orion Nebula, some perhaps approaching the beauty of their birthplace.. Courtesy: NASA
Several yellow stars unmasked from the dust around them by the Near Infrared Camera on Hubble, buried deep within the Cone Nebula. Courtesy: NASA
This, the most detailed image of Pluto ever taken, shows an icy, mottled, molasses colored world which is changing suface color and brightness by season. Courtesy: NASA
A storm on the planet Neptune the size of Jupiter's Great Red Sport storm, taking place nearly 3 billion miles from Earth.. Courtesy: NASA
A typical portion of our universe. Courtesy: NASA
An expanding gas shell from NGC 6543; a dying star. Courtesy: NASA
The dark, dusty outer region of an energetic accretion disk which is within a few hundred million miles of a suspected black hole at the center of galaxy NGC4261, as seen by Hubble. Courtesy: NASA
Galaxy M100, one of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster, as seen by Hubble. Courtesy: NASA
What is this? Courtesy: Linda Morabito
The approximate natural color image of Europa (left) and a false-color composite image (right), which enhances color differences in the water-ice crust of Europa, taken by Galileo. Fractures in the crust reveal dark material, in some cases from below. Dark and light blue regions are course to fine-grained ice. The bright region is a young impact crater. Courtesy: NASA
The world that is Io; with volcanic plume of Loki off the limb and the heart-shaped feature consisting of fallout from the active plume of Pele, taken by Voyager I Courtesy: NASA
The Earth rising from behind the Moon as seen from lunar orbit by Apollo 8 astronauts, 240,000 miles from Earth. Courtesy: NASA
This picture taken by Hubble captures the formation of protostars. The material around them might one day yield planetary systems. Courtesy: NASA
