Is this galaxy jumping through a giant ring of stars?

Framing a bright emission region, this telescopic view looks out across a pretty field of stars along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy.

Irregular galaxy NGC 55 is thought to be similar to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

Big, bright, beautiful spiral, Messier 106 dominates this cosmic vista.

A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is about 25 million light-years distant in the loyal constellation Canes Venatici.

When did these big galaxies first begin to dance?

Stars are forming in Lynds Dark Nebula (LDN) 1251.

This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula.

There's even a California in space. Drifting through the Orion Arm of the spiral Milky Way Galaxy, this cosmic cloud by chance echoes the outline of California on the west coast of the United States.

The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, M33.