Dive Deep Into Lagoon Nebula <\/p>\n
Photograph byESO\/VPHAS+ team <\/p>\n
Each week our photo editors hand-pick breathtaking photos of space. Of the 350 space photos published in 2014, we bring you our picks for the 12 best of the year. <\/p>\n
In the above photo, the Lagoon Nebula, an immense tapestry of young stars born amid a fiery cloud of gas and stellar cinders, stuns viewers in this view taken from the Paranal Observatory high in the Chilean desert. <\/p>\n
By Dan Vergano and staff writers, photo gallery by news photo editors <\/p>\n
Published December 13, 2014 <\/p>\n
Photograph by NASA Earth Observatory <\/p>\n
The bright lights of Hollywood (right) blaze on the Pacific coast in this October scene shot from the International Space Station. <\/p>\n
The nighttime panorama displays San Francisco (center) and Los Angeles backed by the Sierra Nevada. In the distance, Salt Lake City, in Utah, shines beneath a curved horizon tinted green with the glimmer of the northern lights. <\/p>\n
Published December 13, 2014 <\/p>\n
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