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Comets, stars, galaxies and more: NASA's stunning astronomy images for December 2025

Each day, we dive into NASA’s newest releases to bring you the most mesmerising sights from across the universe. From glowing comets to distant galaxies, these daily images reveal the beauty, mystery and scale of the cosmos in ways that never fail to amaze us. Stay with us as we explore December’s most breathtaking celestial highlights, one remarkable picture at a time.

Sheetal Kumari | December 03, 2025 / 17:51 IST
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December 1: 3I ATLAS-Tails of an Interstellar Comet; Comet 3I/ATLAS shows familiar chemistry, dust and tails, suggesting our Solar System is typical. The green-coma comet passed the Sun in October and nears Earth in mid-December before leaving forever. (Image: Victor Sabet & Julien De Winter/NASA)
December 1: 3I ATLAS-Tails of an Interstellar Comet; Comet 3I/ATLAS shows familiar chemistry, dust and tails, suggesting our Solar System is typical. The green-coma comet passed the Sun in October and nears Earth in mid-December before leaving forever. (Image: Victor Sabet & Julien De Winter/NASA)
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December 2: M77-Spiral Galaxy with an Active Center; M77, a nearby 47-million-light-year spiral galaxy, hosts a bright active core powered by a supermassive black hole. Hubble reveals its dust-lined arms and young blue star clusters circling the luminous centre. (Image: Canva)
December 2: M77-Spiral Galaxy with an Active Center; M77, a nearby 47-million-light-year spiral galaxy, hosts a bright active core powered by a supermassive black hole. Hubble reveals its dust-lined arms and young blue star clusters circling the luminous centre. (Image: Canva)
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December 3: Near a Black Hole and Disk this visualisation shows the sky from a camera falling toward a 4-million-solar-mass black hole. The view captures gravity’s warping effects, with the Milky Way forming a loop above and a stretched image below the horizon. (Image: NASA's GSFC/ J. Schnittman/ B. Powell)
December 3: Near a Black Hole and Disk, this visualisation shows the sky from a camera falling toward a 4-million-solar-mass black hole. The view captures gravity’s warping effects, with the Milky Way forming a loop above and a stretched image below the horizon. (Image: NASA's GSFC/ J. Schnittman/ B. Powell)

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