25 Best Space Pictures of the Week – Oct 4th to Oct 10th, 2012

1.Closeup of the Thor’s Helmet Nebula taken during the European Southern Observatory’s 50th Anniversary

2.Dark Matter Separation in the Bullet Cluster

3.A very rare, cloud-free view of Iceland from Envisat

4.Self-shot

5.The Falcon 9 and Dragon are on the launch pad. Final preparations are underway for the targeted launch at 8:35P ET on Sunday.

6.Space Station Mir

7.Space Shuttle Endeavor straddles the stratosphere

8.Curiosity rover spots bright object in sand at X-Y coordinate 632-790 in image; possible screw from rover fell out from arm at X-Y coordinate 314-363; NASA is pausing Curiosity to gather more data

9.Astronaut David Scott stands in the open hatch of the Apollo 9 Command Module

10.Sunset on Mars

11.Saturn

12.NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula

13.Sunset on Mars a few days ago

14.Mystic Mountain, Carina Nebula

15.SSME test firing

16.Huge moon, tiny space-station

17.ISS Floats Above an Aurora

18.Galaxy Clusters

19.Eagle Nebula

20.The Milky Way over The Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

21.J-2 engines on S-II, second stage of Saturn V rocket at JSC, Houston

22.Mercury Control at Cape Canaveral during Mercury-Atlas 8 in 1962

23.The Dr. Seuss crater on Mercury taken by MESSENGER

24.Ed White’s Gemini 4 Space Walk

25.Tracy Caldwell Dyson in the ISS Cupola

 

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