10 unseen pics of space captured by NASA

A cluster of stars with a bright center. The cluster gets more diffuse away from the center.  

Captured by NASAHubble, this cosmic keyhole is located inside the Orion constellation, around 1,350 light-years from Earth.

You see the Twin Jet Nebula in shimmering colors visible by @NASAHubble. This is not just any planetary nebula; it’s a bipolar nebula.

This vintage photo of Mercury taken by our Mariner 10 in 1974 highlights its craterous surface.

The planet’s plentiful pockmarks are the result of run-ins with meteors, comets, and even asteroids early in Mercury’s life.

A cloud of tan dust surrounds a red burst of light from its center. Large blue stars with four diffraction spikes dot the foreground, while smaller blue stars dot the background.

Mars looks brownish-red in this image. The Valles Marineris canyon system takes up a significant portion of the planet’s width. The background is the blackness of space.

Image of a molecular cloud region. The orange cloud is dense and bright near the top and grows darker and wispier toward the bottom.

In a background of black space and a smattering of red stars is FS Tau.

Enceladus’ half-lit white surface starkly contrasts the blackness of space. All pics: @NASA/Instagram