Astronaut Leland Melvin let his dogs participate in his official portrait for NASA. Anyone who looks at a photo like this and doesn't crack a smile is dead inside.
My first viral space image wasn't just the moon- but our whole solar system (or at least the parts I had captured by then.) This is what my astrophotography looked like in 2018. I'm about to answer the question of how this would look if I did it in 2023.
Hubble Views a Dazzling Cosmic Necklace
Fittingly known as the “Necklace Nebula,” this planetary nebula is located 15,000 light-years away from Earth in the small, dim constellation of Sagitta (the Arrow)
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll
A peaceful moment in the snow with the largest trees in the world, the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), captured by photographer Michael Block.