Clouds of gas swirl throughout the image, with clusters of million-year-old stars peeking through. Photo Credit: NASA This image shows the beautiful pillars of space.

putting on a beautiful show for observers as seen in this beautiful space wallpaper.These colours can only be seen with such depth from sites such as Paranal, where the atmosphere is ...

Here’s how it works. This beautiful space wallpaper is a composite image combining a new infrared view of the Crab Nebula, obtained with ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, with an optical image ...