What does our region of the Universe look like?

These bright rims and flowing shapes look ghostly on a cosmic scale.

Jewels don't shine this bright -- only stars do. And almost every spot in this glittering jewel-box of an image from the Hubble Space Telescope is a star.

What would it look like to fly over the North Pole of Jupiter?

Almost every object in the above photograph is a galaxy

Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602

This tantalizing array of nebulas and stars can be found about two degrees south of the famous star-forming Orion Nebula