5 Best Space Images of All Time

The Apollo 8 crew orbited the moon 10 times during late December of 1968, capturing this view of Earth:

Neptune and its rings glow in infrared light in this image from the James Webb Space Telescope. It’s the first direct look at Neptune’s rings in more than 30 years:

After capturing the Pillars of Creation in 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope imaged them for a second time in late 2014:

In May 2022, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration released this first image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way:

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took this parting image of Earth after completing its tour of the solar system in 1990: