As Star Trek so often reminded us, space is the final frontier. It is grandiose beyond the comprehension of the human mind, and we can never hope to know or understand it all.
But what we can do is build spectacularly powerful telescopes to take crystal clear photos of the night sky, and make some pretty incredible inferences off of them. Space might be infinite, (practically), but so is human tenacity.
Here are 20 HD photos of infinity and beyond.
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James Webb captures the Pillars of Creation.
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James Webb photographs Jupiter.
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The pillars of the Soul Nebula.
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A supernova explosion that happened in Centaurus A. (The red dot.)
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James Webb’s first image. Each shape is a galaxy.
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Saturn taken by the James Webb Telescope.
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Hubble vs James Webb Space Telescope, the Ring Nebula.
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Uranus, from James Webb.
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The moons Io and Europa passing by Jupiter, caught by Cassini.
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The tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars. It has a height of 25 km, Mount Everest is 'only' 8.8 km tall.
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The clearest picture ever taken on the surface of Venus.
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Photo from astronaut Michael Collins, in 1969. There is not one human in the universe behind him.
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The Rosette Nebula, some say depicts a human skull.
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A tower of plasma on the Sun, taller than four Earth diameters.
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The first ever direct image of another multi planet star system.
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“I took a 16k picture of The Moon.”
