Then take a break and look to the stars for a while ... and each is brimming with otherworldly color and light. Don't be fooled by the name. "Planetary nebulae" are just like any other nebula ...

Since stars appear as points of light ... that's part of a large cluster known as SMACS J0028.2-7537. The more colorful galaxy warped around it is a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way. Miguel Claro is a professional photographer ...

Bode's Galaxy has an apparent magnitude of +6.94, making it one of the brightest galaxies visible in the Northern Hemisphere.