2023: A Year of Stellar Space Achievements and Breathtaking Images

Astronomers have captured stunning space images in 2023, including the closest star-forming region Rho Ophiuchi, the galaxy cluster MACS0416, the Horsehead Nebula, Jupiter in ultraviolet light, a pulsar wind nebula resembling a spectral hand, an infrared aurora on Uranus, the galactic onion NGC 3923, an outburst by Eta Carinae, bipolar jets from Herbig-Haro 211, a gaseous ring of hydrogen orbiting a galaxy, ancient galaxies in the CEERS deep field, the globular cluster Terzan 12, the Ring Nebula, and a massive star in the Milky Way's center.