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The stunning Rosette Nebula, NGC 2237
(Credit: https://t.co/9siPmKh49U) 
Gorgeous! Messier 78 a reflection nebula in Orion 
(Credit: ESO/Igor Chekalin) 
Following conservative estimates there must be at least 2 TRILLION! galaxies in the observable universe. Imagine the wild zoo of exoplanets that could exist in all these galaxies.
Do you think there is life out there?
(Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble) 
The gorgeous Carina Nebula imaged by the VLT Survey Telescope
(Credit: ESO. Acknowledgement: VPHAS+ Consortium/Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit) 
Extraordinarily beautiful: Messier 78, a reflection nebula in Orion
(Credit: ESO, Igor Chekalin) 
An astonishing view of one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way
Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Nota (STScI/ESA) 
The hidden magnetic chaos within the Whirlpool Galaxy!
(Credit: NASA, the SOFIA science team, A. Borlaff; NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))