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Nuray Bulbul

The best Space photos of all time, from Aldrin’s historic first steps to galaxies billion of years old

The bright star at the centre of the Southern Nebula Ring (NGC 3132), viewed by the James Webb Space Telescope in near-infrared light

(Picture: Nasa/AFP via Getty Images)

Since the late 1960s, there has been a steady stream of beautiful cosmic pictures, thanks to technological development.

New telescopes have peered deeper into the cosmos. They have shown us images never seen before, like the first-ever image of a black hole, which was just declared to be science’s “breakthrough of the year”.

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