Space in February 2013 (summary of events of the month)

Despite the fact that February is the shortest month of the year for the event 28 days was sufficient to publish a full material on it. Let's see what happened in the last month of winter.

Luxury halo in the sky over Norway's Tromso, February 19.





Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield (Chris Hadfield) continues to delight his fans gifts in the form of photographs to the ISS. The picture of clouds and its shadow over the Sahara desert, February 17.



Next fallen meteorite in Chelyabinsk. Unequivocal hit the news on February 15, day of the month.



Supernova W49B is considered one of the youngest in the Milky Way galaxy. Photos Chandra February 26.



Valentine in the form of star W5.



Alexander Samokutyaev training in Star City. Russian cosmonaut is preparing to go to the ISS in October 2014.



Snapshot Panstars comet that came as close to Earth on April 17 this year.



Another eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily. Photo satellite EO-1 on February 19.



Self rover «Curiosity» before drilling the surface of the red planet, February 3.



The mysterious images in the Sahara, the photo with the ISS on February 20.



Oleg Kononenko (left) and Anton Shkaplerov (right) working on the ISS on 16 February.



Color image of Mercury from NASA was published on February 22 and demonstrates the differences in color on the surface of the planet, depending on the soil mineralogical differences.



Magnetic loops (coronal mass ejections) above the surface of the sun. Photos events of last summer have been published 20 February.



Siberia in the air. Property ISS February 26th. It appears in the center of the lens Lake Baikal.



About 500 amateur astronomers and professionals gathered on February 4 Scout Key, Florida, USA. It is very convenient to consider the stars, and even visible to the ISS.



Clouds over the coast of China, on 9 February. Photos from the ISS.



The complex structure of the Seagull Nebula (ІS 2177). Gas clouds form the likeness of the wings of a bird. Photos European Southern Observatory, February 4.



Let's go to the moon. Photos of the airport, in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, February 24.



One of the brightest and closest spiral galaxy M106 is located about 20 million light years from Earth. Photographed "Hubble", with adjustments astronomers Robert Gendler and Jay Gabanna.



Approaching snow storm in North America on February 8.



Starting the Atlas V rocket with the satellite Landsat, which will explore the landscape of the earth, the base of the US Air Force Landenberg, California, USA, February 11.



North Pole of Saturn. Spring came. The picture of the spacecraft «Cassini». The picture was taken from a distance of 650 thousand kilometers.



So we saw the space in February 2013.

UPD: For those who missed passing by Earth asteroid "2012 DA14», offer a retrospective view of events.