ALMA

A bright, icy-looking object floats in deep space at the center of the image, surrounded by a large, glowing blue and pale orange cloud that fades softly into the dark background. The blue part of the cloud is largest and mostly on the left-hand side. The orange part is smaller and on the right-hand side. Small stars are scattered throughout the black sky.
Artist’s illustration of the binary star system WR 112. A bright blue-white Wolf-Rayet star and a nearby, smaller companion star orbit each other in space. Their powerful stellar winds collide between them, creating a glowing region where dust forms and streams outward in a spiral plume. A magnified inset in the top right corner, shows the dust grains against a reddish background, highlighting mostly extremely tiny, nanometer-sized particles along with a smaller number of grains about 100 times larger.
Composite radio astronomy image showing multiple views of ring-like gas and dust structures around galaxies on a black background. At the top left, nearly face-on amber rings appear clumpy and irregular, gradually transitioning across each row into more inclined and edge-on views that stretch the rings into thin, bright streaks. Toward the right side of several rows, blue-tinted versions of the same disks are shown, highlighting different components or wavelengths of emission. The sequence from top to bottom emphasizes how the same type of galactic disk looks progressively more elongated as the viewing angle tilts from face-on to edge-on.