NASA’s Best: 10 mesmerising images of the day from November 2025
Explore 10 mesmerising NASA images captured in November 2025, showcasing dramatic cosmic vistas, planetary close-ups and rare celestial events that reveal the beauty, scale and mystery of our ever-changing universe.
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Interstellar dust in Chamaeleon forms an elegant V-shaped glow, reflecting red and infrared light. Blue Beta Chamaeleontis contrasts sharply, while distant galaxy IC 3104 appears as a faint white spot. (Image: Xinran Li & Houbo Zhao/NASA)
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Orion’s Belt stars—Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka—shine as massive blue supergiants amid gas and dust clouds, including the Horsehead and Flame Nebulae, in a vibrant 4-degree-wide cosmic view. (Image: Aygen Erkaslan/NASA)
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS brightens after its October perihelion, showing a green coma in Virgo. Visible by telescope, it nears Earth at 270 million km in mid-December during a major observing campaign. (Image: Rolando Ligustri/NASA)
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Dione and Rhea glide across Saturn’s nearly edge-on rings in this November view. Ring plane crossings briefly hide the thin rings, with the next series from Earth starting in 2038. (Image: Christopher Go/NASA)
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The observable universe spans everything light reveals, from nearby stars to the cosmic microwave background. It may be one small region within a larger universe or an even broader multiverse. (Image: Wikipedia, Pablo Carlos Budassi)
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Apep’s swirling shells form from two Wolf-Rayet stars orbiting every 190 years, shedding dust with each pass. A third star shapes the gaps until a future supernova ends the dance. (Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JWST)
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Comet Lemmon shines with dual tails above China’s Meili Mountains, set against the Milky Way. The comet fades now, but mountains and galaxies evolve over far longer timescales. (Image: Lin Zixuan (Tsinghua U.)/NASA)
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Globular cluster M15 packs over 100,000 ancient stars into a dense core. Long exposures reveal faint surrounding dust. The cluster lies 35,000 light-years away in Pegasus. (Image: Alvaro Ibanez Perez/NASA)
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Edge-on galaxy NGC 1055 spans over 100,000 light-years, showing dust lanes, star-forming regions and a faint boxy halo likely built from a disrupted companion galaxy. (Image: John Hayes/NASA)
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The Crescent Nebula spans 25 light-years, shaped by winds from Wolf-Rayet star WR 136. Its glowing folds reveal past eruptions, and the star will eventually end in a supernova. (Image: Greg Bass/NASA)
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