You can spend hours just staring at this stuff…
This dusty gas cloud just pounding out new stars like it's no thing:
This cosmic flight through the Carina Nebula shows dense clouds of gas and dust are like nurseries for new stars!
NASA / G. Bacon, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (Viz3D Team, STScI) / Via svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
This legit terrifying simulation of a supermassive black hole with no qualms about guzzling up a helpless star:
Look at tidal forces just rip apart that star! This artist's impression is based on data from a real event that scientists observed in a galaxy about 290 million light years away.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab / Via svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
This incoming swarm of electrons and ions just charging toward Earth like there are no helpless creatures there:
This mind-fuck of a simulation shows particles ejected by the sun during a massive explosion called a coronal mass ejection. The particles, electrons and ions, are powerful enough to distort the shape of Earth's magnetic field and sometimes mess around with our electronics. You can see them as they are deflected by Earth's magnetic field at the end of the clip.
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio / Via svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
This hallucinatory trip toward the Horsehead Nebula:
This dense gaseous cloud wouldn't be much to see in visible light, but in infrared light it turns into a glowing, far-out masterpiece. The red colors are the warmer regions.
NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon, T. Davis, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (Viz 3D Team, STScI) / Via nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov