Twelve months of cosmic wonders: Space scientists show off highlights of the year

This Hubble image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds in the outskirts of a star-forming region called the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is located about 160 000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa. (NASA/ESA/CSA et al. via SWNS)

By Dean Murray

Twelve months of cosmic wonders: Space scientists show off highlights of the year

(NASA/ESA/CSA et al. via SWNS)

Twelve months of cosmic wonders: Space scientists show off highlights of the year

(NASA/ESA/CSA et al. via SWNS)

Twelve months of cosmic wonders: Space scientists show off highlights of the year

(NASA/ESA/CSA et al. via SWNS)

Twelve months of cosmic wonders: Space scientists show off highlights of the year

(NASA/ESA/CSA et al. via SWNS)

Twelve months of cosmic wonders: Space scientists show off highlights of the year

(NASA/ESA/CSA et al. via SWNS)

Twelve months of cosmic wonders: Space scientists show off highlights of the year

(NASA/ESA/CSA et al. via SWNS)

Twelve months of cosmic wonders: Space scientists show off highlights of the year

(NASA/ESA/CSA et al. via SWNS)

Twelve months of cosmic wonders: Space scientists show off highlights of the year

(NASA/ESA/CSA et al. via SWNS)

Twelve months of cosmic wonders: Space scientists show off highlights of the year

(NASA/ESA/CSA et al. via SWNS)

Twelve months of cosmic wonders: Space scientists show off highlights of the year

(NASA/ESA/CSA et al. via SWNS)

Twelve months of cosmic wonders: Space scientists show off highlights of the year

(NASA/ESA/CSA et al. via SWNS)

Twelve months of cosmic wonders: Space scientists show off highlights of the year

(NASA/ESA/CSA et al. via SWNS)

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