Space. Photo galleries in the past month.

All photographs in this collection are made in the last month and relate to the theme of space.




The birth of a new star in the nebula Carina. (NASA via Getty Images)



Snow-capped Himalayas draw the line between the vertices of the Tibetan plateau in Central Asia (top) and the plains of Nepal, Bhutan and India in the Indian subcontinent (bottom). (ESA)



The planetary nebula NGC 6302, also known as Butterfly Nebula. (Hubble SM4 ERO Team / NASA, ESA via Getty Images)



During the docking shuttle "Discovery" astronauts on the station replaced the coolant tanks. (NASA via Reuters)



Cluster of Galaxies "Stephan's Quintet". (NASA via EPA)



Hurricanes left black marks on the Martian dunes. (NASA / JPL / University of Arizona)



Pattern on dry Martian ice. (NASA / JPL / University of Arizona via Reuters)



Shroud of dust comes from Queensland in northern Australia to New Zealand. (Jeff Schmaltz / NASA via MODIS)



Laboratory of Laser Ranging in Goddard Space Center in Maryland shoots a beam to the lunar orbiter NASA. (Tom Zagwodzki / Goddard Space Flight Center)



Stars circling over the lighthouse near Uotkinsvillya, GA. (David Manning / The Athens Banner-Herald via AP)



Saturn. The picture was taken after the equinox of the World (August 11), when the rings edge-lit by the sun. During equinox, the rings have virtually no coverage. Next equinox on Saturn to happen in 2024. (JPL / Space Science Institute / NASA)



Members of the team «Desert RATS» in spacesuits during field trials in mid-September in Arizona. NASA tests technology for future space exploration during its annual program called "Research and study of technology in the wilderness." (NASA / D-RATS)



Spiral galaxy NGC 6946 "Fireworks" removed students from Japan. (Subaru Observation Experience Program)



Base Lightyear figure from the movie "Toy Story" returned to Earth aboard the space shuttle "Discovery" September 11 after spending 15 months on the ISS. During his tenure at the station the toy was used for a series of studies. (NASA via EPA)



Star cluster "Trifid". It is a rare combination of three types of nebulae. (ESO)



Rocket "Soyuz" starts from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan 30 sentyabrya.V command "Union" includes NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams, Russian cosmonaut Maxim Shur, the founder of the famous circus «Cirque du Soleil» Canadian Guy Laliberte. Laliberte paid for the space flight of $ 35 million. (Bill Ingalls / AFP - Getty Images)



This image consists of 330 photographs of the galaxy M31, made by ultraviolet telescope on board the spacecraft NASA «Swift." (Stefan Immler and Erin Grand / NASA)



Small glaciers flow into the dry valley in western Greenland. (Ian Howat / Byrd Polar Research Center and TED)



Space probe NASA «STEREO» noted two active spots on the solar disk, seen in the ultraviolet. (NASA / SOHO)



Stain blue-green plankton size larger than that of Greece, has grown in the Barents Sea. (ESA)

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