Deep Space and Photos of the Earth

The lens most interesting photos of NASA deep sky and the earthfor the last 2 months. Supermassive black holes, craters on Mercury, the cosmic wind blowing at a speed of 32 million km / h and more.

Mena Crater on Mercury, named after the Spanish poet Juan de Mena. Has a diameter of 20 kilometers. Photograph taken January 3, 2012:

Galactic Cluster El Gordo large cluster (superstructure, consisting of several galaxies) ever observed by astronomers. Located at a distance of 7 billion light years from our planet:

Comet C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) was opened on November 27, 2011. Its diameter is 100-200 meters. after such a rapprochement with the Sun. Known fact that came into the solar corona, flying 120,000 miles above the surface, but was able to survive after such a rapprochement with the Sun.

This is an infrared picture of a comet, “Lovejoy,” traversing the 240 miles above Earth December 25, 2011. Made with the International Space Station:

Earth, the Earth’s atmosphere and the moon. Taken on January 8, 2012 with the ISS:

The Moon and the Earth’s atmosphere. Taken on January 8, 2012 with the ISS:

Canary Islands, January 3rd, 2012:

Persian Gulf, the view from the ICC on 20 December 2012:

The modules of the International Space Station and a night view of Europe, January 22, 2012:

Hawaiian Island chain, which stretches 2.4 thousand kilometers from the north- west to south-east, 29 December 2011:

The crater on Mercury named after Armenian painter Hakob Hovnatanian. By the way, all the craters on the planet named after people in the arts: artists, writers, architects, etc. The photo was taken eight of the American automatic interplanetary station, “Messenger,” February 8, 2012:

Flash on the Sun, January 27, 2012:

Tropical Cyclone Iggy, February 2, 2012:

Supermassive black hole Sagittarius A, located in the center of our galaxy – the Milky Way, February 9, 2012. The distance to the radio source before it is about 26,000 light-years, the mass of the central object – 4.3 million solar masses. With the help of the orbital X-ray telescope “Chandra” was recently recorded uptake of this black hole of a huge number of asteroids (pictured right):

Night city of Chicago and its suburbs, February 2, 2012:

Northern Lights, January 25, 2012:

Moon, January 17, 2012:

The chain of coral islands and reefs of Florida – Keys to the south-eastern United States, January 4, 2012:

Flashes on the Sun, January 22, 2012:

The telescope “Hubble” took a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy closest to us – the Andromeda Galaxy. The mass of this black hole 100 million times the mass of our Sun, January 2, 2012:

Clouds over the Bering Sea in the north Pacific Ocean, January 13, 2012:

Loop of superheated plasma on the Sun, January 17, 2012.

Alaska, January 23, 2012:

Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica, 31 January 2012:

January 4, 2012 NASA satellite Suomi NPP received one of the most beautiful pictures of the Earth in high definition “Blue Marble 2012.” On it we have been told in detail:

Globular Cluster NGC 6752 in the constellation of the Peacock, February 8, 2012:

Clouds over the Sahara desert, February 12, 2012:

X-ray telescope “Chandra” has found the fastest previously known winds overclocked black hole IGR J17091-3624. Wind speed is 32 million kilometers per hour, which is about 3% of the speed of light. (Clickable 1417 × 2000 px):

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