The awe-inspiring view was captured by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) instrument on a telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which sits at an altitude of 7,200ft.
After the excitement of the James Webb Telescope and asteroid-smashing DART launching in 2021, plus the world s most powerful rocket blasting off this year, the attention turns to Britain in 2023.
New research from the Hubble Space Telescope has shown there is a huge discrepancy between the universe s current rate of expansion compared to observations from right after the Big Bang.
This would cause a Big Crunch and could happen remarkably quickly, according to study co-author Paul Steinhardt, of Princeton University in New Jersey.