On August 21, you'll be able to stream the "first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in 99 years" live on Facebook. If you live in the US, you can also just walk outside and look up — as long as you're wearing a pair of protective glasses, that is.
Solar eclipse aside, there's a special sense of wonder that comes from gazing at the stars and mulling over space's many mysteries. To get a closer look at our universe, INSIDER combed through the archives of two of NASA's Great Observatories: the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
From supermassive black holes to interacting galaxies, here are the 27 most breathtaking photos of space we found:
The Bubble Nebula is an emission nebula located 8,000 light-years away from Earth.
Often found in regions of space where new stars are forming, emission nebulae are hot, glowing clouds of gas.
The center of our Milky Way galaxy contains a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* — the bright white spot on the right side of this photo.
Located in the Scorpius constellation, the open cluster Pismis 24 is home to several massive stars.
An open cluster is a group of stars — often a few hundred or thousand — that are held together by mutual gravitation.
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