NASA recently posted a few photographs taken with the help of high-powered telescopes aboard spacecraft circling the Earth.

Among them are the picturesque image of the jewel box, thousands of sparkling, young stars nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603; the mesmerizing image of more-than-12-billion-year-old white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy captured by the Hubble Space Telescope; and the terrific picture that shows the Thailand flooding taken aboard NASA's Terra satellite.

The images also show splendid shots of a young, red dwarf star surrounded by three planets; the interior of Mars' Newton Crater; the Carina Nebula (a collection of more than 14,000 stars); and the striking encounter between two galaxies.

Here is a compilation of remarkable photographs from NASA's image gallery that shows everything from ancient stars to an active stellar nursery containing thousands of young stars, developing protostars, and rarely visible swirling landscapes of stars that sometimes resembles North America and disappears abruptly.

Check out the images below.

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Trigger-Happy Star Formation
Image shows molecular cloud Cepheus B, located in our galaxy about 2,400 light years from the Earth. www.nasa.gov
Seeing Red
An infrared mosaic image represents the sharpest survey of the Galactic Center to date. www.nasa.gov
Swirling Landscape of Stars
In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this image infrared view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent disappears. www.nasa.gov
Galaxies Collide
The collision between the two parent galaxies producing a shockwave effect. www.nasa.gov
Planets Under a Red Sun
E.T. may actually live in a world that is nothing like Earth. Astronomers are now thinking of expanding the habitability zone of a planet to include a wider set of criteria. www.nasa.gov
NASA039s Terra Spacecraft Sees Thailand Flooding
In Thailand, about one third of all provinces are affected. The image from the NASA's Terra Spacecraft Shows Thailand Flooding. www.nasa.gov
Ancient White Dwarf Stars
Image shows the oldest burned-out stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. www.nasa.gov
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