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For a few precious months each year, the brightest and most photogenic region of the Milky Way rises high enough above the horizon to create one of nature's most spectacular night-time displays. June marks the beginning of peak Milky Way season across much of the Northern Hemisphere, offering photographers their best opportunity to capture the galaxy's glowing core, dense star clouds and intricate dust lanes.

A new image released by NASA offers a densely packed view of one of the universe's most massive structures, revealing a crowded gathering of galaxies whose gravity bends and magnifies light from far more distant objects hidden behind it.The photograph, taken by the NASA-led Hubble Space Telescope, centres on the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211, a vast collection of galaxies bound together by gravity. At first glance, the scene appears busy and almost chaotic.