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Cone-shaped shadows emanating from the bright centre of galaxy IC 5063 could be cast by the dusty ring surrounding the supermassive black hole at its centre. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI and W.P. Maksym (CfA)

Eye On The Sky Shadow cast by dust disc around supermassive black hole

A stream of charged particles emanating from red giant star R Aquilae. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Decin et al.

Eye On The Sky Stellar winds from red giant star produce cosmic floral pattern

Jupiter, Mars and Saturn imaged at ESO's La Silla Observatory in the Atacama desert. Credit: ESO

Eye On The Sky Jupiter, Mars, Saturn imaged at La Silla Observatory

A galactic collision looking rather like a Halloween pumpkin. Credit: NASA, ESA, and W. Keel (University of Alabama)

Galactic Halloween pumpkin snapped by Hubble Space Telescope

A view of the northern sky captured by the TESS satellite. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (USRA)

Eye On The Sky TESS satellite produces mosaic image of northern night sky

Free-floating Gaseous Globules. Credit ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sahai

Eye On The Sky Star-forming globules seen in cosmic bubble of hot ionised gas

A view of Jupiter and its moon Europa captured on 25 August 2020 by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team.

Eye On The Sky Hubble captures a new view of Jupiter and moon Europa.

Supernova SN2018gv, spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope in galaxy NGC 2525, 70 million lightyears away. Credit: credit ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess and the SH0ES team / Acknowledgment: Mahdi Zamani

Eye On The Sky Hubble views a supernova in a spiral galaxy

The misaligned planet-forming discs around triple star system GW Orionis. Credit: ESO/Exeter/Kraus et al., ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)

Eye On The Sky Mis-aligned rings detected in disc around triple-star system

The Four Planets and the Moon Alice Fock Hang (Reunion), aged 11. Winner, Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year. Equipment: Nikon D610 camera, 35mm lens.

Astrophotography

Eye On The Sky Four Planets and the Moon wins Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2020

Light Bridge in the Sky Xiuquan Zhang (China), aged 12. Highly commended, Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year. Equipment: Canon 5D Mark IV camera, 14mm lens.

Astrophotography

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2020 See this year's winning images

Archive images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC; Ultraviolet: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSC; Optical: NASA/STScI(M. Meixner)/ESA/NRAO(T.A. Rector); Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Su

Eye On The Sky Chandra X-ray images reveal the beauty of the cosmos

G286.21+0.17. Image credit ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Y. Cheng et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; NASA/ESA Hubble

Eye On The Sky The chaos of starbirth captured 8,000 lightyears away

Galaxy NGC 2775, by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA/J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)

Eye On The Sky A sleepy galaxy with an empty heart

Barred spiral galaxy NGC 4907 and a Milky Way star. Credit ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gregg

Eye On The Sky Nearby star outshines a distant galaxy