This pillar of dust and gas, three light-years tall, is being attacked from inside by infant stars sending out jets of gas.

This image of Saturn faces the sunlit side of the rings from above.

In this image, dusty clouds around a young star are breaking off into a multiple star system.

This image shows an iron-nickel meteorite on Mars’ surface.

This iron-nickel meteorite on Mars, nicknamed Egg Rock, is around the size of a golf ball.

Dark patches in the center and right of this image are small dark nebulae, containing dust and gas, called a Bok globule.

This open star cluster is found 200,000 light-years away, in the Toucan constellation.

These huge pillars within the Carina Nebula are actually clouds of dust and gas, 7,500 light-years from Earth.