Space in June 2013 (review of events of the month) Bashny.Net

On the calendar for the fourth day of the second month of summer. It's time to see what interesting things happened in the first one. It was interesting as always a lot. This is just us ordinary earthlings, started the holiday season.

One of the most interesting events of the past month has become a phenomenon and we Supermoon enough it covered. So move on to more research events.

Butterfly Nebula, or NGC 6302 with a wingspan of about three light years. Photographed "Hubble." The nebula is located about 4000 light years from Earth.





Astronaut Chris Cassidy, its outstanding flight engineer of the 36th expedition of the ISS, photographed in the dome home planet.



Preparation of an orbiting satellite, NASA «Iris» to run, to study the sun. After several delays, the satellite was successfully launched on 28 June, a military base in Vandenberg, California.





Beauty Mercury. For a long time it was believed that the surface of this planet is similar to the surface of the moon. As you can see, quite a few similarities.



View of the Earth through the ISS Dome. In the upper left corner of the visible capsule "Soyuz».



On June 18, 30 years ago in space rose the first American woman astronaut - Sally Ride. Before our Valentina Tereshkova, of course, far away, but the fact remains.



A good image of the southern part of Alaska, over which clear weather can be less than 20 days a year. Picture taken June 17, 2013.



Two neighboring galaxy (NGC 2936 and NGC 2937) permanently deform each other. Tx combined name - Arp 142. Now they resemble a bird and egg.



Test capsule spacecraft «Orion», which in the future in the long-term plan to send a mission to asteroids and Mars, June 13, the space center in Houston.



Night over the American state of Texas. Photos from the ISS.



Before you NGC 6744. The peculiar relative "our" Milky Way. Located at a distance of 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Peacock.



Photo on long exposure sky over the observatory IRAM, located in the French Alps.



The birth of "bubbles". Two large formation in the center of the image, formed several smaller ones. These small bubbles - future stars. Here is one of the remote parts of the Milky Way galaxy.



June 13th with the Chinese Jiuquan spaceport went into orbit the crew of three Chinese astronauts.



The team spent 12 days in orbit and successfully returned.



Lone boulder leaves a mark on the surface of Mars. Photographed «Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter» and became available on June 7.



Galactic twins PGC PGC 9074 and 9071 in the constellation Triangulum.



Planetary three in Chile sky: Jupiter (top), Venus (bottom left) and Mercury (well, you get where).



Rocket «Ariane 5" lifted into the sky space truck "Albert Einstein" for delivery of cargo to the ISS. The missile was launched from the cosmodrome in French Guiana, June 5, 2013.



After 10 days held prosperous docked.



A unique phenomenon called Manhettenhendzh (Manhattanhenge) happens only twice a year. The bottom line, we think it is not necessary to explain. Note the symmetry of the Sun and 42 th Street.



At the same time, our review is completed. See you in August.