A gallery of the best astronomical photos will be released this year at the National Maritime Museum in London.
The Ring Nebula looks like a giant gas ring around a white dwarf star. It is seen as representing the fate of the Sun-like stars.
The bright red eye nebula image is in the sights of the Spitzer space telescope of the US Aerospace Agency.
Helix, the name of a nebula about 650 light-years from Earth, is dubbed
The nebula has a giant eye-like shape, the sun spraying material into the surrounding space are memorable astronomical scenes of the week.
National Geographic magazine has just introduced 20 most beautiful space images in 2012, voted by the image editorial department of the magazine.
The moon sunk under the Earth's atmosphere, the image of the Costa Concordia vessel flipped from above, the burnt Pelican nebula, ... the most beautiful cosmic images of the past