Seeing stars: Visions of the Universe exhibition

From Hubble telescope images of spiral galaxies to closeups of the bizarre moons of Saturn, via stunning shots of the night sky from Earth, see the wonders of space as photographs of the cosmos go on display at London's Royal Maritime Museum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/jun/11/visions-universe-royal-maritime-in-pictures


two lost hikers stand in a bubble of torchlight in Yosemite national park, California. The picture captures the last remnants of daylight and the bright dust clouds of the Milky Way



The three bright stars on the left in this image are those of Orion’s Belt. Although part of a familiar constellation, a view such as this can never be seen with the naked eye. 


Saturn's rings from the Cassini orbiter spacecraft, 2005


Venus taken from the Magellan spacecraft, 1991



The Crab Nebula (M1) from the Hubble Space Telescope, 2005
Stars such as our Sun die slowly, gently expelling their outer layers over millions of years. But for stars more than 10 times as massive as the Sun, the end is extremely violent. When its nuclear fuel runs out, the core of the star collapses, triggering a huge explosion that rips the outer layers of the star apart, blasting them outwards. The Crab Nebula is the debris from one of these 'supernova' explosions