The shadows on Mars, the ghost galaxy, the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, and the Southern Ring Nebula are some of the most impressive images of the universe captured in 2022.
The NGC 3324 Galaxy (Cosmic Cliffs) in the Carina Nebula, one of the first stunning images from the James Webb Space Telescope, was released by NASA in mid-July.
NASA shared two images of the Southern Ring Nebula (NGC 3132).
This is a giant cloud of gas and dust located 2,000 light-years from Earth.
The Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft carried NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, along with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, to the International Space Station (ISS) from Baikonur Spaceport in Kazakhstan on September 21.
The darkness on Mars was captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover.
The SMACS 0723 galaxy cluster, located 4.6 billion light-years from Earth, has been likened to a gravitational lens. This image, released on July 11, quickly became iconic in the scientific community.
This image of the Dimorphos asteroid was taken from the DRACO device on the DART spacecraft, at a distance of 68 km, just before the spacecraft collided with the asteroid.
M74, also known as the “ghost galaxy”, is a spiral galaxy located approximately 32 million light-years from Earth. It is situated in the constellation Pisces.
The first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).
A 150m wide crater formed after a meteorite impact in the Amazonis Planitia region on Mars.