ALMA

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.
Stylized space scene showing the glowing top of a spacecraft or capsule emerging from a deep red nebula, with scattered distant stars on a black background
A multi-panel astronomical image shows the spiral galaxy M33 on the left, with soft blue-white spiral arms and a bright central bulge, overlaid by a faint rectangular outline marking a region near the galaxy’s center. Inset on the right is a zoomed, false-color radio/optical composite of that outlined area, filled with mottled clouds of blue, purple, and red, where the red regions trace clumpy, dense gas and the blue-purple background highlights more diffuse material and a central cavity. White labels identify a “Supernova Remnant” within a dashed circular outline in the lower-left of the inset, a nearby “Wolf-Rayet Star” just above and to the right, a faint “Cavity” region outlined by a dotted circle above them, and “Dense Gas” along the bright red structures to the right, illustrating how the massive star and past supernova have carved out a bubble in the surrounding gas within the galaxy.
A rectangular collage of fifteen small, purple-and-gold astronomical images arranged in three rows on a black background, each showing a hazy, glowing central source with irregular contours and scattered fainter specks resembling distant galaxies or stars.
Illustration of a young star system seen edge-on in space, with a dark, dusty disk cutting horizontally across the center and glowing orange clumps along the disk that suggest sites of active star formation. Bright white and gray gas flows extend above and below the disk like broad cones or jets, fading into the deep blue background of space. Soft, scattered stars of varying brightness surround the scene.