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3. Pictures of the year 2013: Space

4. Astronomers used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd
anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1990. Although the nebula is shadowy in
optical light, it appears transparent and ethereal when seen at infrared wavelengths.Picture: REX/NASA

5. A map of relic radiation (microwave sky) from the Big Bang, composed of data gathered by ESA's Planck satellite, launched in May
2009 to study Cosmic Microwave Background. The 50-million pixel, all-sky image, released in March, of the oldest light adds an
edge of precision to some existing cosmological theories, defining more precisely the composition of the Universe and its age -about 80 million years older than previously thought. Picture: ESA / LFI & HFI Consortia

6. The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space in a long and slow dance around our galaxy, nearly
200 000 light-years from Earth. Picture: ESA/HUBBLE/AFP

7. The Milky Way arcs over Aspen, Colorado, in this composite picture by Thomas O'Brien. He stitched together 24 shots - the shutter
was open for about 25 seconds each exposure.Picture: THOMAS O'BRIEN / CATERS NEWS

8. This highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way. The remnant, called
W49B, is about a thousand years old and is at a distance of about 26,000 light years away. The supernova explosions that destroy
massive stars are generally symmetrical, with the stellar material blasting away more or less evenly in all directions. However, in the
W49B supernova, material near the poles of the doomed rotating star was ejected at a much higher speed than material emanating
from its equator. Jets shooting away from the star's poles mainly shaped the supernova explosion and its aftermath.Picture:
EPA/NASA / CXC / MIT / L. Lopez

9. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drilled into target rock John Klein, providing a view into the interior of the rock, as well as obtaining a
sample of powdered material from the rock. The rock is part of the Sheepbed mudstone deposit in the Yellowknife Bay area of Gale
Crater. Picture: Reuters/Nasa/JPL-Caltech

10. One of the most significant discoveries in the field of space science in 2013 was from the Mars Curiosity Rover. Drill tests and
chemical analysis of fine-grained rocks in a dried-up lake bed by the Curiosity robot's science tools suggest conditions were right for
the lake to have once supported microbial life, perhaps 3.6 billion years ago. Picture: NASA/AP

11. This image taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows a patch of rock cleaned by the first use of
the rover's Dust Removal Tool, a motorised, wire-bristle brush on the turret at the end of the rover's arm. Picture: NASA/JPLCaltech/MSSSHO/AFP/Getty Images

12. Astronaut Chris Hadfield tweeted New York City, incredibly clear, before the trees have filled with leaves.Picture: Chris Hadfield

13. @Cmdr_Hadfield tweeted this picture, with the
caption The full moon rises over the only planet
we have ever called home.Picture:
@Cmdr_Hadfield

14. NASA's Hubble and
Spitzer space telescopes
have probed the stormy
atmosphere of a brown
dwarf named
2MASSJ22282889431026., showing winddriven, planet-sized clouds
enshrouding these strange
worlds. Brown dwarfs form
out of condensing gas, as
stars do, but lack the mass
to fuse atoms and produce
energy. Hubble and
Spitzer simultaneously
watched the brown dwarf
as its light varied in
time,Picture: NASA/Rex
Features

15. This photo of the Earth from space show light trails made by cities, star trails from the cosmos and even hundreds of thunderstorms
lighting up the atmosphere. NASA astronaut Don Pettit shot this from the International Space Station orbiting 240 miles above the
planet. The image was created by combining 18 separate long-exposure photographs. Pettit says he takes multiple 30-second
exposures, then stacks them using imaging software.Picture: DonPettit/NASA/BNPS

16. Amateur solar-photographer Dave Tyler took this photograph of solar flares in his back garden near High Wycombe, Bucks. He used
a refracting telescope equipped with a hydrogen alpha filter to capture these incredible shots from 93 million miles away.Picture:
David Tyler / Barcroft Media

17. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observes fast-growing sunspots. The bottom two black spots on the sun appeared quickly over
the course of Feb. 19-20, 2013. These two sunspots are part of the same system and are over six Earths across.Picture:
NASA/SDO/AIA/HMI/Goddard Space Flight Center/Rex Features

18. Every 25.34 days, the object, designated LRLL 54361, unleashes a burst of light. Although a similar phenomenon has been
observed in two other young stellar objects, this is the most powerful such beacon seen to date. The heart of the fireworks is hidden
behind a dense disk and envelope of dust. Astronomers theorise the flashes are caused by material suddenly being dumped onto
the growing stars, known as protostars. A blast of radiation is unleashed each time the stars get close to each other in their
orbits.Picture: EPA/NASA / ESA

19. Astro-photographer Robert Gendler has taken science data from the Hubble Space Telescope archive and combined it with his own
ground-based observations to assemble this photo illustration of the magnificent spiral galaxy M106 Picture: NASA/R.
Gendler/ESA/Hubble Her. / Rex Features

20. This image of the Planetary Nebula Sh2-174, which may suggest a rose, was obtained with Mosaic 1 camera on the Mayall 4-metre
telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. A planetary nebula is created when a low-mass star blows off its
outer layers at the end of its life. The core of the star remains and is called a white dwarf.Picture: REUTERS/T.A. Rector (University
of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF

21. A composite of 25
separate images
spanning the period of
April 16, 2012 to April
15, 2013, revealing the
zones on the sun
where active regions
are most common
during this part of the
solar cycle.Picture:
NASA/GSFC/SDO /
Rex Features

22. Amateur astronomer Ralph Smith photographed these close-ups of the sun from his garden. Ralph, from Deeral in Queensland,
Australia, used off the shelf equipment to capture the detailed snaps. The results show huge bursts of flames - known as
prominences - leaping from the Sun's surface. Others highlight giant sunspots - cooler areas on the Sun's photosphere - which are
often larger in size than Earth itself.Picture: Ralph Smith / Barcroft India

23. A meteor contrail is seen while fragments of the meteor fall in the Chelyabinsk regionof Russia Picture: ITAR-TASS / Barcroft Media

24. Arianespace's unmanned Ariane 5 rocket, carrying the automated transfer vehicle (ATV) Albert Einstein in French Guiana. The ATV
will resupply the International Space Station with 14,500 pounds of propellant, food, experiments, water and oxygen.Picture: Getty
Images

25. Photographer Babak Tafreshi took this photo of star trails on the Chajnantor Plateau, at an altitude of 5000 metres in the Chilean
Andes. The Hyperspace effect is created by the rotation of the Earth, revealed by the photographs long exposure.Picture: Caters
News Agency

26. Another image from Chris Hadfield: Dubai, the Palm Island like a trilobite in the night.Picture: Chris Hadfield

27. A natural-color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible,
is seen in this NASA handout taken from the Cassini spacecraft July 19, 2013 and released November 12, 2013. The image
captures 404,880 miles (651,591 kilometers) across Saturn and its inner ring system, including all of Saturn's rings out to the E ring,
which is Saturn's second outermost ring. Cassini's imaging team processed 141 wide-angle images to create the panora Picture:
NASA/Reuters

28. An image from Nasa's
Cassini mission of the
spinning vortex of
Saturn's north polar
storm resembling a
deep red rose of giant
proportions
surrounded by green
foliage.
Measurements have
sized the eye at a
staggering 1,250
miles (2,000
kilometers) across
with cloud speeds as
fast as 330 miles per
hour (150 meters per
second).Picture: AFP

29. This Cassini Spacecraft image shows Saturn's north polar hexagon in the Sun's light now that spring has come to the northern
hemisphere. Many smaller storms dot the north polar region and Saturn's signature rings, which appear to disappear on account of
Saturn's shadow, put in an appearance in the background.Picture: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/AFP

30. The Cassini spacecraft shows a view that looks toward the sunlit side of the rings of Saturn from about 18 degrees above the
ringplane. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on August 12, 2013 using a spectral filter sensitive
to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 728 nanometers.The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 994,000
miles from Saturn.Picture: AFP PHOTO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

31. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, an Expedition 36 flight engineer, inside the Cupola of the International Space Station (ISS), using a
400mm lens on a digital still camera to photograph a target of opportunity on Earth some 250 miles (about 400 km) below him and
the ISS. Cassidy has been aboard the orbital outpost since late March 2013 and will continue his stay into September Picture: EPA

32. A NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer image of NGC 6744, one of the galaxies most similar to our Milky Way in the local universe. The
galaxy is situated in the constellation of Pavo at a distance of about 30 million light-years Picture: AP/NASA

33. Photographer Andrew Whyte spent
months working how to get the
perfect picture - and had just a week
to capture the Milky Way as it passed
over the location of Hovis's famous
advert showing the nostalgic scene
as it's never been seen before.He
was only able to capture the galaxy
so clearly because of Dorset's 'no
street lights' policy Photographer
Andrew Whyte spent months working
how to get the perfect picture - and
had just a week to capture the Milky
Way as it passed over the location of
Hovis's famous advert showing the
nostalgic scene as it's never been
seen before.He was only able to
capture the galaxy so clearly because
of Dorset's 'no street lights' policy
Picture: Andrew Whyte / Caters
News

34. A view of Mars that
was stitched together
from images taken by
NASA's Viking Orbiter
spacecraftPicture: AP

35. A slow shutter photograph taken by
David Sharp of the Milky Way
above Stonehenge Picture: David
Sharp/Solent Ne

36. Nasa's Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn's rings and Earth and its moon in the same frame Picture: AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech

37. A Chandra X-ray observatory image of a massive cloud of multimillion-degree gas in a galaxy about 60 million light years from Earth.
The hot gas cloud is likely caused by a collision between a dwarf galaxy and a much larger galaxy called NGC 1232. If confirmed,
this discovery would mark the first time such a collision has been detected only in X-rays, and could have implications for
understanding how galaxies grow through similar collisions.Picture: EPA

38. In this long exposure photo, a streak appears in the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower above a roadside silhouette of a
Spanish fighting bull in Villarejo de Salvanes Picture: AP Photo/Paul White

39. The Japanese robotic cargo spaceship HTV-4, also called Kounotori-4 ( 'White Stork' in Japanese ) docking at the ISS. The HTV-4
spacecraft reportedly delivered about six tonnes of cargo to the ISS, including a small talking robot called Kirobo.Picture: EPA

40. Robot astronaut Kirobo, a 34cm high robot in the International Space Station. The astronaut Kirobo has become the first robot to
speak in outer space. The talking robot is to a 'companion' to Japanese astronaut Kochi Wakata, who is expected to take command
of the ISS later this year.Picture: EPA

41. This drawing provided by the Houston Airport System shows various facets of the proposed spaceport at Ellington Airport, the
current home to the Houston area's military and NASA flightsPicture: AP

42. The Milky Way glows bright in the clear Icelandic sky. Photographer Iurie Belegurschi, 30, from Reykjavik, took advantage of the
clear sky while taking 15 people on a photo tour around the south of Iceland. The group were hoping to see the Northern Lights, but
ended up being treated to an even better sight - an incredibly bright Milky Way.Picture: Iurie Belegurschi/Caters News

43. A colour-coded elevation image of Eden Patera, one of several sites on Mars that may be the footprints of ancient supervolcanoes.
Mars may once have been rocked by titanic supervolcano eruptions that may have shaped the planet's climate, scientists believe.
Crater-like features that could be the footprints of the cataclysmic events have been discovered at several sites in the Martian
northern highlands.Picture: NASA/JPL/GSFC/Arizona State University/PA

44. Stephen Banks managed to capture this image of the centre of our galaxy through the stunning rock archway Durdle Door, Dorset.
By setting his camera to a 30-second exposure time, and using a bright LED torch to illuminate the arch, the 24-year-old snatched
the perfect moment.Picture: Stephen Banks/Caters

45. The Witch Head nebula, named after its resemblance to the profile of a wicked witch. Astronomers say the billowy clouds of the
nebula, where baby stars are brewing, are being lit up by massive stars. Dust in the cloud is being hit with starlight, causing it to glow
with infrared ligh. The Witch Head nebula is estimated to be hundreds of light-years away in the Orion constellation, just off the
famous hunter's knee.Picture: JPL-Caltech/NASA

46. Karen L. Nyberg, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photo of Super-Typhoon Haiyan from space on
November 9, 2013.Picture: ZUMA/REX

47. Galaxy NGC 4945, which is similar in overall appearance to our own Milky Way, but contains a much more active supermassive
black hole within the white area near the top. Approximately 13 million light years from earth, X-rays from Chandra (blue), which
have been overlaid on an optical image from the European Space Observatory (ESO), reveal the presence of the supermassive
black hole at the centre of this galaxy.Picture: REUTERS/NASA/CXC/Univ degli Studi Roma Tre/A.Marinucci et al/ESO/VLT &
NASA/STScI/Handout via Reuters

48. Before Comet Ison in November came Comet PANSTARRS, visible in March and April. It made its closest approach to Earth on
March 5. Skywatchers in the Southern Hemisphere were able to see Comet Pan-STARRS for weeks at twilight, even without
binoculars or a telescope. The comet came about 100 million miles (161 million km) from Earth at the closest point.Picture:
REUTERS/University of Hawaii/Terry Lovejoy/Australia

49. The comet PANSTARRS is seen next to the waxing crescent moon off the western coast of Southern California, in Los Angeles
Picture: REUTERS/Gene Blevins

50. Comet Ison was hyped as 'Comet of the Century' and star-gazer were wondering if it would be visisble in daylight in early 2014, but
the 2 ton lump of dirty ice from the outer reaches of our solar system did not survive its close encounter with the sun in
November.Picture: Damian Peach/Skyand Telescope.com/PA

51. Comet ISON (bottom) moves towards the sun in this image from ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory captured at 10:51
a.m. EST on November 28. This image is a composite, with the sun imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in the center,
and SOHO showing the solar atmosphere, the corona. NASA spacecraft and scientists are watching the comet to see if it survives
its perilous journey around the sun.Picture: NASA/AFP/GETTY

52. The Geminid Meteor display, taken at St Mary's Lighthouse, Whitley Bay,Tyne and Wear at 4.30am on Saturday Picture: Thomas
Heaton/ Geoff Robinson Photography.

53. China landed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon in December, in the first such soft-landing since 1976, joining the United States
and the former Soviet Union in managing to accomplish such a feat. A giant screen at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in
Beijing shows an animated image of the Chang'e-3 lunar probe landing on the surface of the moon. Inset is a picture of the moon's
surface broadcast by the lunar probe Picture: AFP/Getty Images

54. The Chinese Jade Rabbit lunar rover, taken by the camera on the Chang'e 3 probe during the mutual-photograph process. China
aims to launch its next unmanned lunar probe in 2017, with the key aim of collecting and bringing back lunar samples Picture:
REUTERS

55. First meteor shower of 2014

56. Quadrantid Meteor Shower 3-4 january 2014
Early each January, the Quadrantid meteor shower provides one of the most intense
annual celestial fireworks displays, with a brief, sharp peak lasting only a few hours.
The 2014 Quadrantid meteor shower will peak Friday Jan. 3 at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT),
in the middle of the day for most of North America, so the best meteor views will be in
other parts of the world, where night has already fallen. At its best, the Quadrantids can
dazzle observers with between 60 and 120 meteors an hour.

58. Eastern Asia will be in the best position to watch this year’s Quadrantid shower, during the dark hours before dawn January 4,
2014. The shadow line crossing the Pacific Ocean represents sunrise.

59. Tommy Eliassen Photography captured this photo on January 3, 2014.

60. Barry Simmons in Lake Martin, Alabama captured this Quadrantid meteor on the morning of January 3, 2014.

61. Quadrantid and Orion. Date and place: 03.01.2014, Sinaia (PH), Romania

62. Quadrantid over cabin. Date and place: 03.01.2014, Sinaia (PH), Romania

63. 6 Jan 2014 The first meteor shower in 2014. A meteor streaks past stars during the annual Quadrantid meteor shower in Qingdao,
Shandong. Photo: Reuters

64. 6 Jan 2014 The first meteor shower in 2014. A meteor streaks past stars during the annual Quadrantid meteor shower in
Qingdao, Shandong. Photo: Screenshot via QQ

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