These are the top 10 NASA space pictures from the month of May, 2025.
Our universe is an incredible, unfathomably enormous and beautiful thing. It is hard to not to feel insignificant against the size and beauty of the universe!
NASA describes our universe as follows:
The universe is everything. It includes all of space, and all the matter and energy that space contains. It even includes time itself and, of course, it includes you.
Earth and the Moon are part of the universe, as are the other planets and their many dozens of moons. Along with asteroids and comets, the planets orbit the Sun. The Sun is one among hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and most of those stars have their own planets, known as exoplanets.
The Milky Way is but one of billions of galaxies in the observable universe — all of them, including our own, are thought to have supermassive black holes at their centers. All the stars in all the galaxies and all the other stuff that astronomers can’t even observe are all part of the universe. It is, simply, everything.
The awesomeness of the universe is just that: awesome beyond understanding, staggering in its scale and mysteries, and cosmic displays that stretch our comprehension!
NASA space pictures are taken by NASA and astronomers around the world and posted on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive.
Young Star Cluster NGC 346
Galaxy Wars: M81 versus M82
M1: The Incredible Expanding Crab
Messier 101
Curly Spiral Galaxy M63
Beneath Jupiter
Spiral Galaxy NGC 2566
Zeta and Rho Ophiuchi with Milky Way
Herbig-Haro 24
Irregular Dwarf Galaxy Sextans A
Top Ten NASA Space Picture Archives
Image Credits
- Young Star Cluster NGC 346: NASA, ESA, CSA, Olivia C. Jones (UK ATC), Guido De Marchi (ESTEC), Margaret Meixner (USRA)
- Galaxy Wars: M81 versus M82: Collaborative Astrophotography Team (CAT)
- M1: The Incredible Expanding Crab: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Jeff Hester (ASU), Allison Loll (ASU), Tea Temim (Princeton University)
- Messier 101: NASA, ESA, CFHT, NOAO
- Curly Spiral Galaxy M63: Alberto Pisabarro
- Beneath Jupiter: NASA, Juno, SwRI, MSSS
- Spiral Galaxy NGC 2566: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy
- Zeta and Rho Ophiuchi with Milky Way: Ireneusz Nowak
- Herbig-Haro 24: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA) / Hubble-Europe Collaboration
- Irregular Dwarf Galaxy Sextans A: Franz Hofmann, Gemsbock Observatory
- Reflections on VdB 31: Roberto Marinoni