Not that we needed another reason to celebrate it being Friday, but seemingly out of the blue, NASA has just released brand new, high-res images of Pluto from New Horizons' flyby this summer.

Open cluster in Sagittarius

Starforming nebula in Sagittarius

Emission nebula with open star cluster in the constellation Serpens Cauda

Globular cluster located in the constellation Pegasus.

In this 2012 image by Wally Pacholka, the closest butte on the left and the butte to its right are known as the Mittens, while Merrick Butte can be seen just further to the right. High overhead stretches a band of diffuse light that is the central disk of our spiral Milky Way Galaxy.

With the help of a natural telescope, Hubble peered back in time to some of the earliest galaxies, many of which played a significant role in making the universe what it is today.

Asterism in the constellation Delphinus

It's the largest astronomical image of all time, used by astronomers in the search for distant exoplanets and multiple star systems.

Globular cluster in Ophiuchus

The beautiful galaxy Messier 94 lies a mere 15 million light-years distant in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici (the hunting dogs).

An image of Kerberos, one of the two tiny moons of Pluto, arrives from Nasa's New Horizons probe.

Located in the Keystone portion of the Hercules constellation.

Feed your need for heavenly views of the universe with our pick of the most awe-inspiring space pictures. This week, we get a glimpse of fall colors from space, see the remains of a supernova ballooning into a cloud of space stuff, and get a good-morning greeting from an astronaut in space.

Like an illustration in a galactic Just So Story, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula winds through the emission nebula and young star cluster complex IC 1396, in the high and far off constellation of Cepheus. Of course, the cosmic elephant's trunk is over 20 light-years long.

Kochab and Pherkad, the stars which mark the outer edge of the Little Dipper, are known as the Guardians since they circle Polaris.

Globular cluster located in Ophiucus

The first color images of Pluto’s atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the hazes are blue. “Who would have expected a blue sky in the Kuiper Belt? It’s gorgeous,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colorado.

The New Horizons mission has returned its first colour image of Pluto's atmospheric hazes and shows them to have a blue tinge.

Open cluster in the constellation Scutum