6 smokey images captured by NASA

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 23, 2008.

Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of N44 nebula featuring glowing hydrogen gas, dust and massive stars.

Westerlund 2, a giant cluster of 3,000 stars, resides in a raucous stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29.

Weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture of NGC 1999.

This mayhem is all happening at the heart of the Lagoon Nebula, a vast stellar nursery located 4,000 light-years away.

This image of part of the Horsehead Nebula, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, shows the nebula in a whole new light.