Space July (review of events of the month)

That was the first half of the year, and with it the middle of summer. The past history month presented a lot of interesting events related to the cosmos. We would like to share with you the next portion of pictures and videos.

For the first time in the history of astronomy, American scientists have observed from the observatory "Veil" for supernova remnants in the galaxy M83, the constellation Hydra. The distance from the Earth - 15 million light years.





This chart shows the difference between the orbits of the typical near-Earth asteroids from the safe (blue) to a potentially hazardous (red).



"Hubble" imprinted globular cluster Messier 107 in the constellation Ophiuchus.



The spacecraft "Cassini" shows a pair of Saturn's moons: Titan (in the background), and Tethys.



Telescope «WISE» shows us the Flame nebula located in Orion's belt.



Rare photos of the mission control center, made on July 20, 1969 at the time of landing "Apollo 11" on the lunar surface.



The New York Museum of «Air & Space Museum» Pavilion opened with the shuttle.



Research Center Caltech presented a new amplifaer (a device for amplifying weak microwaves), which will study everything from the galactic emission to quantum particles.



Aurora near Lake Ontario, North America (8 July 2012).



From Pettermana glacier in northwest Greenland broke off a block of ice, twice the size of Manhattan Island.



The unit «Mars Express» imprinted on the surface of Mars, an unusual crater with a strange formation around him, resembling a liquid spills.



«Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter» demonstrates the glaciers in the Martian southern hemisphere.



Felix Baumgartner (Felix Baumgartner) completes his last jump from a height of 29,455 meters, before making a record jump from a height of 37 kilometers.



Before you sign a picture taken 37 years ago, July 17. The photo Alexei Leonov (left) and Dick Slayton during the first ever docking of American aircraft to the Soviet, in the framework of the "Soyuz-Apollo».



On Saturday, July 14, from Baikonur to the ISS went to another team, led by a Russian Yuri Malenchenko.





Here crimson spiral galaxy, which managed to fix the space telescope "Chandra." In fact, no shades of crimson at the galaxy does not. Just as X-ray telescope was handed a powerful surge that occurred in the central black hole.



Astronaut Joe Aqaba took this picture of the aurora with the ISS at night from 14 to 15 July.



Milky Way over the Swiss Alps on July 26.



The image of the solar corona, a satellite of Hi-C, for the moment, is the most high quality.



For dessert, we offer you the most beautiful panorama of Mars. For its creation were used more than one hundred high-resolution photos.



Photo: NASA, ESA, Reuters

Finally, we offer you to get acquainted with the rover named «SAM».

See you in the review of space in August!

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