Best Space Photos of 2010

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Photos of the cosmos is always of particular interest.  
We offer a look at the selection of the most interesting pictures.

1. Shuttle at sunset. Space Shuttle Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle comes in to land on Feb. 9, 2010 This picture was taken on board the International Space Station. The orange stripe on the black disk of the Earth - is the bottom layer of our atmosphere, the troposphere.More white light shines stratosphere, which lies at altitudes ranging from 11 to 50 km above the Earth.Then to 85 km is the mesosphere, thermosphere and then begins, where at an altitude of 200 to 500 km and are manned orbital flights. In his last space shuttle mission Endeavour will leave April 1, 2011 2. Spiral galaxy NGC 3982 in the constellation Ursa Major    This image of the galaxy away from Earth at a distance 68 million light-years, was made on October 19 with Hubble Space Telescope. Pink color in this photograph marked the places where stars are emerging.Young stars are marked in blue.At the core of the galaxy, marked in yellow are old stars. April 13 at 1998 in this galaxy was an outbreak of a supernova. 3. Sun This picture was taken astrophotographer Alan Friedman in the yard of his home town of Buffalo, New York. It took use a special hydrogen-alpha filter and a 3.5-inch telescope.The obtained images were in black and white, color image was obtained after a special retouching. 4. Sunspot One of the clearest ever images of sunspots was made on August 24 in California observatory. The darkest, central, part of the spot has a temperature of "only" 4000o C, while the entire surface of the Sun's red-hot before 6000oS.That's spots are areas where solar activity reaches the highest values. 5. Martian "forest" Looking at this picture, which was made Jan. 14, 2010 d orbital station Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for the Exploration of Mars, you'd think we face a real forest. But NASA experts argue that in fact this flow of black basalt sand, into a form of sublimation of the frozen carbon dioxide. That is, these trees, like the famous Martian canals, and the Martian sphinx is a sophisticated optical illusion. 6. View of the Earth from space    February 9, 2010 g at calling the shuttle Endeavour to dock with International Space Station on board the space shuttle has been made this picture. The docking took place on the third day shuttle flight, when the ISS and Endeavour were over the Atlantic Ocean. 7. The longest shadow of the tallest tower Earth's tallest skyscraper Burj Khalifa (height 828 m) and its gigantic shadow clearly visible even from space.This photograph was taken of Earth remote sensing satellite GeoEye-1 from a height of more than 600 km. 8. Spacewalk    February 17 astronaut Nicholas Patrick is working with "Dome" - a module of the American segment of the International Space Station. "Dome" is specifically designed to monitor the Earth's surface and is equipped with seven large portholes. It also places for recreation of the crew. 9.   Saturn Here we see how Dion's April 10 against the backdrop of the Titan (the largest satellite of Saturn). While certain that apart from the Earth, liquid water exists in the solar system only on Titan. 10. Space Shuttle Discovery on the background of the Earth April 17 at the 13th day of the flight space shuttle Discovery undocked from the ISS, and the pilot, James Detton did put circled the ISS. In this photo you can just consider the bottom of the shuttle, the ISS flies, as well as the robot arm, which has not yet laid in the cargo compartment. This maneuver was accomplished, when the space shuttle and ISS were on the Colombian island of Isla de Providence off the coast of Nicaragua. 11. Telescope Hubble 20 years    This picture taken by orbiting Hubble telescope, was published April 22 in honor of 20 anniversary of the telescope. In the photo is visible in the constellation Carina Nebula, located at a distance of nearly 10 000 light years from Earth. Carina Nebula consists of hot ionized hydrogen, and is one of the biggest visible nebulae. It has a complicated structure and contains within itself more and homunculus nebula formed in the middle of the XIX century thanks to the gigantic explosion of the star Eta Carinae and the Keyhole Nebula. 12. Magnitude of the disaster April 26 DigitalGlobe QuickBird satellite station did a snapshot of the Gulf of Mexico, where the April 20, 2010 occurred one of the largest man-made disasters - the explosion of an oil platform Deepwater Horizon. As a result of this explosion there was the largest in the history of oil spills in the ocean. The circumference of an oil slick was about 1000 km. In the top left of the picture plane is visible, which seems very tiny against the backdrop of the deadly oil spill. 13. Penultimate flight of space shuttle Atlantis This photo was taken on May 17 at the time of docking the shuttle with the ISS.Penultimate (32 th in a row) flight of Atlantis took place from 14 th to 26 th May. During the flight to the ISS was delivered scientific equipment and spare parts required. Total weight of the delivered load was 12 tons.  June 28, 2011 "Atlantis" go on his last flight, and then planned to take it out of operation. 14. Photograph of the aurora from space This picture was taken with the Space Station when the station flew over the Indian Ocean, May 24 during a magnetic storm caused by the ejection of matter from the solar corona (the so-called coronal mass ejections). In spring and autumn aurora can be seen much more frequently than in the winter or summer. Arisen, this striking beauty of the phenomenon can be held in the sky from few minutes to several days and the diameter of radiant oval can reach 3000 km. 15.   Comet McNaught This comet photographed Michael Jager of Stiksendorfa, Austria, June 6 in the morning. For the first time a comet Comet McNaught discovered a British-Australian astronomer Robert McNaught on Aug. 7, 2006 It is the brightest comet in 40 years, in January and February 2007 in the southern hemisphere, it could be considered just the naked eye, and the inhabitants of the northern hemisphere Zmli could see this comet only in the early twilight. 16. Manam Volcano islands It looked like from space island of Manam, Papua New Guinea on June 16.This island is a huge volcano with a diameter of 10 km almost proper conical shape. Its steep slopes are composed of many layers of hardened lava left from previous eruptions.The population of this island-volcano is nearly 11 thousand people, so the eruption, which take place very often lead to casualties.Live on the volcano is very difficult, even when he sleeps, because due to his activities on the island there is not only rivers, but more or less permanent streams.

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17.

Oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico


June 26 Aqua satellite photographed a giant oil slick continues to spread throughout the Gulf of Mexico waters.

18.

The asteroid 21 Lutetia


This image of a large asteroid 21 Lutetia (its diameter is approximately 10 km) is composed of three images taken by the European spacecraft Rosetta on July 10 from a distance of 3,170 km.  Lu - is the first asteroid, which could come so close to the spacecraft.On the asteroid's surface are clearly seen huge craters left by the numerous collisions with other space bodies.

19.

The total solar eclipse


This is a total eclipse can be observed July 11, 2010 Mr. Easter Island, southern Chile and Argentina, and in French Polynesia.In the South Pacific and in some places in South America could see only a partial solar eclipse.

20.

Beautiful Coma Berenices


Orbital telescope Hubble photographed on August 10 cluster of galaxies, which bears a beautiful name Coma Berenices. This cluster is separated from the Earth at a distance of 320 light years.
In this cluster there is more than 1000 bright galaxies .. Cluster of galaxies is very dense, and it is assumed that about 90% of the mass in this cluster accounts for the dark matter, which is not available for observations with modern means.The diameter of this galaxy cluster is 10 million light-years.

21.

Space Nebula


A snapshot from Hubble Space Telescope "nebula IRAS 05437 2502.
This unusual nebula in the constellation Taurus.
Its main feature is the bright arc, outlining the upper edge of interstellar dust.
According to one hypothesis, this glittering arc occurred when a massive star, for some reason, very high speed (about 200 000 km / h) left the nebula.

22.

Shadows from Saturn's rings


At this interesting photographs, issued on 27 August 2009 are clearly visible shadows cast by Saturn's rings dense clouds of ammonia to the atmosphere.
The diameter of Saturn's rings almost 250 000 km, while the thickness of the rings is less than one kilometer.

23.

Spiral galaxies


In this photo released Aug. 30, are clearly visible colliding spiral galaxies Arp 271.These two galaxies, NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 have nearly the same size and are located in the constellation Virgo.Galaxies are very close to each other, but still not close enough to their stars began to collide with each other.
This shot made the New Technology Telescope at the European Southern Observatory, La Silla in Chile, shows the presence of bridges of matter between galaxies. It is believed that in such a state of the galaxy can survive a few more tens of millions of years.

24.

Space Spiral


September 7 orbital telescope Hubble in the infrared has photographed an amazing spiral nebula, almost regular shape.This phenomenon is observed in the star system LL Pegasus. Distance from Earth to the star about 3000 light years, the size of the spiral - roughly one third of a light-year.

25.

X-shaped space object


This picture taken Hubble Space Telescope ", an unusual object was published on October 13. In the picture it is evident that this object is similar to the X-shaped comet with a long tail. UCLA astronomer David Jewitt believes that the head part of the object formed in the collision of two asteroids, and the tail - is stretched under the influence of solar radiation by a cloud of dust and small rock fragments. The velocity of this unusual object was 18,700 km / h.

26.

Flight of the ship «SpaceShipTwo»


Private manned suborbital space shuttle «SpaceShipTwo» together with its carrier «White Knight Two» preparing to land on the runway of the American spaceport near Las Cruces on October 22.

It is planned that the ship «SpaceShipTwo» will make passenger flights into space.
Its capacity of 8 persons (6 passengers and 2 crew members).
Flight altitude will be 140 km according to the Air Force and 320 km on the version, voiced by aircraft designer Rutan Bertani.The ticket price for a space walk to be about 200 thousand dollars.
Test flight of this ship in March 2010, but the beginning of its commercial operation scheduled for 2012 is planned that the ship «SpaceShipTwo» will not only serve tourists but also to conduct a study of the atmosphere.

27.

The International Space Station flying against the moon.The picture was taken in the Hungarian city Guergufalu 75 km from Budapest on October 21.

28.

City Lights


This orbital picture was taken from the observation of the ISS module called "dome" on October 28.The island of Sicily and the peninsula are shining lights of the city nightlife.Diameter central circular sight Inside the Dome is 80 cm around it are 6 more windows smaller. Instead of glass in the windows inserted into a heavy-duty clear fused quartz, which practically does not expand when heated.

29.

Dual-core comet Hartley


This photo was sent to Earth with the automatic pilot of the spacecraft Deep Space on November 7.Comet Hartley - is a small periodic comet with an orbital period of 6.5 years.The nucleus of this comet highly elongated and shaped like a peanut or pins. Core length 2.2 km, and the speed of a comet 37 km / sec.

30.

Space Medusa


This picture was obtained from an orbiting infrared telescope WISE, was published on 17 November.This telescope has an overview of the sky in infrared light, so all his pictures are subject to special treatment that they could perceive the human eye.
Beautiful object in the center of the image, like a colorful jellyfish - these are two are very close to each other dying stars, depleting their supplies of hydrogen.Stars themselves are indicated in white, their discarded shells - in green and the dust rings are colored orange.

31.

The launch of the Falcon-9


Expendable booster Falcon-9, owned by a private company Space-X, will be launched from Cape Canaveral. This rocket launched to the orbit of a test capsule "Dragon".
Due to the fact that in 2011 planned cancellation of all existing space shuttle, there was a need for a new cargo ship. "Dragon" - this is a private transport spacecraft that is scheduled in the near future to begin delivery of payloads and people to the ISS.At the first stage of the ship "Dragon" will be used only in commercial versions, in which he would deliver into orbit 6 tons of cargo.

32.

Gas bubble in the depths of space


Amazingly beautiful gas sphere photographed orbital telescope Hubble.
This giant gas bubble is formed as a result of a supernova. In the picture we see an object called SNR 0509-67,5, which resulted from the explosion of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud.  
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