First came the trees. In the town of Salamanca, Spain, the photographer noticed how distinctive a grove of oak trees looked after being pruned. Next came the galaxy.

A full moon rises behind the Temple of Poseidon before a lunar eclipse in Cape Sounion, near Athens, Greece.

A handout photo released by the European Space Agency on Feb. 2, 2017, shows a perspective view of the Mars north polar ice cap and its distinctive dark troughs forming a spiral-like pattern.

This eye-catching image of the planetary nebula Abell 33 was taken by astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Created when an ageing star blew off its outer layers, this beautiful blue bubble is, by chance, aligned with a foreground star. This cosmic gem is unusually symmetric, appearing to be almost perfectly circular on the sky.

This eye-catching image of the planetary nebula Abell 33 was taken by astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Created when an ageing star blew off its outer layers, this beautiful blue bubble is, by chance, aligned with a foreground star. This cosmic gem is unusually symmetric, appearing to be almost perfectly circular on the sky.

A lunar eclipse over Oceanside, California.

By combining the power of four telescopes, an international team of astronomers has captured the most detailed image yet of a distant star—an observation that’s meshing well with pre-existing theories about the physical characteristics of giant stars.

Breaking Voyager 1’s record

Every day satellites are zooming through space, snapping incredible pictures of Earth, the solar system and outer space. Here are the highlights from this week.

Jupiter is covered in intense, massive storms far more complex than anyone had expected, Nasa has revealed. The geometric clusters of cyclones that cover the planet's poles are just one of the various discoveries reported by scientists studying data sent back from Nasa's Juno spacecraft, which is circling the planet. The team has seen the cyclones churning in Jupiter's deep atmosphere in far greater detail than ever before

The Nasa robot this week celebrates 2,000 martian days investigating the surface of the Red Planet.

: A slender crescent Moon and inner planets Venus and Mercury never wander far from the Sun in planet Earth's skies,taken March 18,2018.

Bright dots that look like snow are in fact stars.

On March 13, 2006 Cassini's narrow-angle camera captured this look at Saturn and its rings, seen here nearly edge on. The frame also features Mimas and tiny Janus (above the rings), and Tethys (below the rings). "Above" and "below" the rings is mostly a matter of perspective here. All three moons and the rings orbit Saturn in roughly the same plane.

One Day a Year… for the Salad. Yeah. John De Crevecouer Go for it.

See amazing astrophotography from the Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2018 shortlist

This is a false color image. Nicknamed "The Rose"

Supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. This is the first entry in Charles Messier's "Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters."

Picture is from July 7th (I think) from Dawn

Infrared photo taken by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The result of infrared make it appear bluish-green.

Deep Dream

After a more than nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to Pluto, it’s show time for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, as the flyby sequence of science observations is officially underway. In the early morning hours of July 8, mission scientists received this new view of Pluto—the most detailed yet returned by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard New Horizons. The image was taken on July 7, when the spacecraft was just under 5 million miles (8 million kilometers) from Pluto.

If you gaze long enough into space, space will gaze back into you

Doesn't look much different than a desert on Earth.

These clouds - sometimes called night-shining clouds - are thought to be made of ice crystals that form on fine dust particles from meteors.

M2 is a globular cluster located in the constellation Aquarius.

There's many star trail pics out there, but this is the first panoramic one I've seen.

On July 11, 2015, New Horizons captured this image, which suggests some new features that are of keen interest to the Geology, Geophysics and Imaging (GGI) team now assembled at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland. For the first time on Pluto, this view reveals linear features that may be cliffs, as well as a circular feature that could be an impact crater.

Globular cluster in the constellation Canes Venatici. M3 is comprised of over 500,000 stars, many of them variables.

A composite of pictures taken by New Horizons when it flew by Jupiter (and its moons) in 2007

Pics that New Horizons took back in 2007 on its way to Pluto

It doesn't look that red in this pic. Changes color every now and then.

NASA said it was giving Instagram an hour-long head start on the first image, posting it to the social media service before officially releasing it on its public website.

“Hello #Pluto! We’re at closest approach. Congrats to all! Follow our story & view new images using #PlutoFlyby.”