Feed your need for heavenly views of the universe with our picks of the most awe-inspiring space pictures from February 2019.

This month, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed a star's fiery birth and a galaxy's massive "tail," as the New Horizons probe sent back its best pictures yet of the most distant world ever visited by a spacecraft. Closer to terra firma, satellites and astronauts orbiting Earth captured nature in all its power and beauty, and an ambitious sky-watcher photographed the moon nearly 50,000 times—yielding a breathtaking view of our planet's perpetual partner.