The year's most wondrous space photography

2015 was a good-looking year for the galaxy

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This image shows a small section of the Veil Nebula, as it was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
(Image credit: (NASA image by Norman Kuring, using VIIRS data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership))

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(Image credit: (ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt))

Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.