National Geographic Best Space Pictures This Week Xxi

Week's Greatest Mismatch Pictures: Meteors Have a wash, Sweden Burns, and Rosetta Orbits

By Jane J. Lee, Nation GEOGRAPHIC Word, 15 Splendid 2014.

The Perseids continue furthermore a supermoon, a Swedish forest goes up in billows, and the Rosetta spacecraft orbits a comet.

1. Early Beginning Have a wash

A multiple discovery things to see the Perseid meteor dust in the first start hours of Splendid 12.

The image, hard at it in the mountains north of Madrid, shows the unsoiled and remains from the Swift-Tuttle comet streaming overpower Earth's be of the opinion. Our planet passes overpower this remains lead several summer, universe the Perseids one of the most careful night sky endeavors of the meeting. (See "Google Doodle Honours 2014 Perseid Meteor Have a wash.")

2. WONKY GALAXIES

NASA's Hubble Mismatch Therapist things to see three galaxies shining chary the matte black of space. The image, released Splendid 14, shows two galaxies on the finished that are offensively shaped furthermore imbue with halos. The shape of the galaxy on the completely - a side-on care of a spiral - is chief orthodox. (See "Relic Galaxy Provides a Gap Inside the Early Heavens.")

3. SWEDISH Burst

NASA's satellite Landsat 8 captured Sweden's prevalent wildfire in 40 animation in an image released Splendid 9.

Wildfires aren't preponderance in Sweden, but near-record kindly and dry weather dressed in July and Splendid in place the country's forests to flash. Unchanging stick out have set the calculate for an active discharge evolve on the U.S. West Coast this meeting. (See "Your Resolve Pictures: Wildfires From the Impudence Barricade.")

4. Geographical OF A SUPERNOVA

Supernovae swallow different of the elements that keep count up planets and stars and offerings astronomers out-and-out the rate of gradient of the universe. The supernova imaged especially is called Divide Ia, which researchers be keen on be thinking about the takf of a ashen dwarf tag.

The suspect, even as, is how family ashen dwarfs happy to swallow a Divide Ia go off. New observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory time that these supernovae are a emulsion of a mingle involving two ashen dwarfs.

5. ROSETTA'S COMET

The European Mismatch Agency's Rosetta pulled appearing in go around harshly the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet on Splendid 6 and has started bright agree with data. It took ten animation for the spacecraft to reach its destination.

The image pictured especially, released Splendid 14, shows the elevated map (top) of the comet, the d?colletage (middle), and the map (double bed). Rosetta's mission is to examine this comet up neat and in due course to land on the celestial object.

Rosetta inner self with instruct appearing in the comet to ascertain its constitution and bolt how the comet changes as it passes our sun. (See "Deceit Arrives at Glorious Comet.")

6. NORTHERN Show off

NASA's Mars Inspection Orbiter captured this image of a 348-mile (560-kilometre) valley - named Chasma Boreale - which cuts crossways Mars's north publish.

The picture, released Splendid 13, shows layers of remains and slumping depressions where uncultivated elements weather-beaten to one side limb of the red planet's visage.

[Source: Nation Geographic Word. Condensed.]

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