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“An Icelandic Saga”

A shipwreck sits in the foreground, with the Northern Lights above it. Photo: © Carl Gallagher

The aurora borealis dances above the wreck of a ship named Gardur, in the Westfjords of Iceland.

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This illustration shows the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

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Concept art of the LINK robot giving NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory telescope an orbital “reboost.”

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The faint, glowing clouds spread across this image are galactic cirrus: clouds of interstellar gas and dust that can be seen in the foreground of the Milky Way.

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This image shows satellites crossing the night sky above the northern Atacama Desert in Chile, over a period of just one hour. It is a stack of a time-lapse video taken on 15 October 2025 about two hours after sunset. A few streaks are caused by planes, and can be easily identified by their blinking-coloured lights, but most trails are due to satellites.

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A dense field of tiny stars fills this square image taken by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. The lower and central areas are dominated by bright yellow and gold colours, forming a textured background similar to fine glitter or sand. Dark brown and black patches cut irregularly through the yellow regions, like ink stains or clouds of smoke. Toward the upper left, the colours shift to purple and reddish tones, blending gently into the surrounding star field. Small blue points of light are scattered across the image.

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