20 Best Space Pictures of the Week – Aug 9th to Aug 15th, 2012

1. NGC 5033

2. This color full-resolution image shows the heat shield of NASA’s Curiosity rover dropping away as it descended to the surface of Mars.

3. Moon-Jupiter-Venus line-up with Perseid meteor in the same frame

4. Spiral Galaxy NGC 4038 in Collision: Visible on the upper left, NGC 4038 used to be a normal spiral galaxy, minding its own business, until NGC 4039, toward its right, crashed into it.

  5. Antares to the galactic core

6. I may be crazy but this new high res version of one of the images from Mars Rover Curiosity on SOL 2 looks just like a stream bed THAT”S DAMP. Scratch that one . THIS one has RAPIDS IN THE CHANNEL

7. NGC 6559

8. Montreal from the ISS

9. Mosaic of navcam images from Curiosity on Mars

10. First full color picture of Curiosity from space, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

11. Great Red Spot, Red Spot Jr., and another little Red Spot on Jupiter

12. Perseid meteor shower – 4 at once

13. Mars Curiosity’s mast deploy is successful. It is now taking Navcam pictures

14. Cosmic Tornado HH49/50 —

15. Perseid Meteors and the Milky Way.

16. Saturn’s Moon Mimas: The Death Star Moon (from Cassini)

17. My first try with Astrophotography. Old camera but I was impressed with what it got. What does r/spaceporn think?

18. I may be crazy but this new high res version of one of the images from Mars Rover Curiosity on SOL 2 looks just like a stream bed THAT”S DAMP.

19. Curiosity’s New Home

20. Curiosity’s first panoramic color pic of Gale Crater, Mars