In new photos of this planet parade, the wispy glow of our own Milky Way galaxy is accompanied by Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars as they make their way through the night sky.

"A long time ago in a galaxy far ... When the pictures were taken, the spacecraft was between 15,379 miles and 30,633 miles from the planet's cloud tops. This is the Little Dumbbell Nebula ...

The Tucker Civic Center was transformed into a galaxy with decorative astronauts towering over guests and planets dangling ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

New observations upended scientists' standing hypothesis about how a star would engulf a planet, causing its demise.

Astronomers have taken unprecedented images of baby planets in a distant star system. The planets are still surrounded by rings of gas and dust from which moons appear to be taking shape.