Space in pictures
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| A false colour image of Cassiopeia A comprised with data from the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes and the Chandra X-Ray observatory |
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| The Barred Spiral Galaxy (NGC 6217) in the Ursa Minor constellation is pictured in Space. |
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| A team of astrophysicists has detected so-called gravitational waves – predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago – which are the first tremors of the Big Bang when time and space began about 13.7 billion years ago. |
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| The barred spiral galaxy M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel. The Hubble photograph captures thousands of star clusters, hundreds of thousands of individual stars, and 'ghosts' of dead stars called supernova remnants. |
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| Acosmic creepy-crawly known as the Tarantula Nebula in infrared light |
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| A spiral galaxy ESO 373-8 - together with at least seven of its galactic neighbours, this galaxy is a member of the NGC 2997 group. |
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| A massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744, according to NASA these are some of the faintest and youngest galaxies ever detected in space. |
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| A giant cloud of solar particles, a coronal mass ejection, explodes off the sun, lower right, captured by the European Space Agency and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory |
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| Current conditions of the quiet corona and upper transition region of the Sun. |
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| First color image of the Earth taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts in 1968. |
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| Fog forming over the the US Great Lakes area and streaming southeast with the wind. A swirling mass of Arctic air moved south into the continental United States. |
(Source: Independent)
