Gorgeous spiral galaxy M33 seems to have more than its fair share of glowing hydrogen gas.

They are not alive -- but they are dying.

Do you see the hourglass shape -- or does it see you?

Where else might life exist?

These cosmic dust clouds drift some 1,300 light-years away along the fertile starfields of the constellation Cepheus.

The two appear separated by only half a degree on the sky, but they actually lie at quite different distances.

This dance is to the death. Along the way, as these two large galaxies duel, a cosmic bridge of stars, gas, and dust currently stretches over 75,000 light-years and joins them.

A small constellation hiding near the south celestial pole, The Chamaeleon boasts no bright stars.

If not perfect, then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic.