Think hurricanes here on Earth are bad? Check out this amazing snap of a monster hurricane at Saturn's North Pole. NASA has shared this false-color image from their Cassini spacecraft. The eye of the cyclone reached 1,250 miles across which is 20 times the size of the storms on Earth.

It may be 23 million light years away, but the Whirlpool Galaxy is still a sight to behold. This galaxy, one of the most picturesque in the sky, was pictured by a telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory and by the famous Hubble Space Telescope.

It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century - the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun on June 5, 2012. That small black dot is Venus in transit across the surface of the Sun. This is the last time anyone will see such a spectacle until 2117.

The transit of Venus can be seen against the setting sun as a dot near the KCPL building in downtown Kansas City, Mo. on June 5, 2012.

The poor star never had a chance. Astronomers have witnessed a 'supermassive' black hole devouring a star that roamed into its orbit, an event that occurs only once every 10,000 years. This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole.

NASA cameras caught the sun spewing out an astonishing solar flare on April 16, 2012, as the star continues its stormiest period in a decade. Video shot by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory showed a massive ribbon of ultra-hot plasma erupting from the sun's left side at around 1:45 p.m. Scientists said it was a moderate M-class flare — eye-popping, but not the strongest they've seen this year, Space.com reported.

A Buffalo photographer has captured a breathtaking image of a massive solar blast roiling inside the region of the sun that has been pelting the earth with waves of charged particles. The shot, by astrophotographer Alan Friedman, shows angry whorls of hot gas racing toward the edge of the sun.

A solar storm engulfed Earth on Mar. 7, 2012 and it was one of the strongest yet. Hours after the overnight storm, officials said no problems with power grids, satellites, GPS, or other technology were reported. The solar storm shakes the planet's magnetic field in ways that could disrupt technology. Luckily, so far the only by-product is a gorgeous array of colorful Nothern Lights ...

The Northern Lights are seen in the sky near Faskusfjordur, Iceland. The storm started with a massive solar flare in the evening of March 6, and grew as it raced outward from the sun,jordan pas cher, expanding like a giant soap bubble, scientists said. The charged particles were expected to hit at 4 million mph.

The largest solar storm in five years sent a huge wave of radiation into earth's atmosphere creating a brilliant show of the aurora borealis near Yellowknife, North West Territories on March 8.

Is that an angel up in the sky?! Right in time for the holiday festivities, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped this stunning view of a star-forming region in the Milky Way. Many are comparing the image to a 'snow angel' high in the sky. Light from glowing hydrogen forms the blue color you see. Located in the constellation of Cygnus (The Swan), the turbulence from the formation is visible to the naked eye in this image.

The Earth casts its shadow across the moon's surface during the lunar eclipse as seen from Portland, Ore., Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011.

Looking beyond the dust in the Milk Way, scientists have discovered 96 new star clusters. Using the world's largest survey telescope, scientists were able to snap infrared images of the clusters. Thirty of the new clusters are shown in this mosaic.

A solar outburst sent waves of bright auroras flying across the skies in the northern reaches of the globe and more are expected. One solar storm, also known as a coronal mass ejection, occurred on Jan. 16, shooting electrically charged particles toward Earth at a speed of a million miles per hour, according to MSNBC.

A second burst occurred on Jan. 22, sending an especially speedy coronal mass ejection hurdling toward our atmosphere at 4 million miles per hour, Doug Biesecker of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado told the Associated Press. The colorful auroras appear when particles from the solar outbursts interact with ions between 60 to 200 miles in the atmosphere, according to MSNBC.

The Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8, or M8) is a stellar nursery in the Milky Way that looks totally psychedelic. This striking image was captured using the Gemini South telescope in Chile and it reveals the chaotic environment in which new stars are born.The nebula is sometimes called the 'Southern Cliff' because a sharp drop-off point is visible. Looking beyond the 'cliff,' you can see a formation of young stars shining in the upper left corner of the image.

This group of interacting galaxies, Arp 273, is especially photogenic. To celebrate the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope's 21st birthday, check out this gorgeous rose-like galaxy. Hubble deployed into space on April 24, 1990.

So that's what Mercury looks like! The tiny planet that is the closest to the sun finally got the closeup it has long deserved thanks to NASA's Messenger spacecraft. This image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the solar system's innermost planet. The image was beamed back to Earth on March 29, revealing a pock-marked, barren surface.

The 'Supermoon' rises above the Empire State Building as seen from Weehawken,tn requin, New Jersey in March 2011 ...

The full moon rises over rooftops in this view Manhattan's East Side.

The full moon is seen in an odd orange-red glow as it rises near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

People stand beside St. Michael's Tower on Glastonbury Tor hill watching the moon as it progresses across the sky in the United Kingdom,sac louis vuitton pas cher.

It might look like a work of art, but it's actually the North American nebula in the visible light spectrum. A nebula is a cluster of dust, hydrogen, and other iodized gases.

The shape of North America is a result of clouds of dust obscuring light. The images were snapped by a Spitzer Space Telescope using infrared. Some areas of this nebula are still very thick with dust and appear dark even in Spitzer's view,ralph lauren.

The wispy nebula running top to bottom of this image is a nearby star-forming region. In visible light, the dust within the nebula obscures and reflects the light of the stars within and behind it, giving rise to several cataloged nebulae.

Here are two more nebula galaxies. The pair are about 31 million light-years apart. Not far in the sky from the handle of the Big Dipper, they officially lie within the boundaries of the small constellation Canes Venatici.

This cloud is associated with the Rosette negula, a stellar nursery about 5,000 light-years from Earth in Unicorn, constellation. The bright smudges are dusty cocoons containing massive embryonic stars,polo ralph lauren, which will grow up to 10 times the mass of the Earth's sun.

It's a total eclipse ... of the moon! A rare total lunar eclipse darkened the early morning sky on Dec. 21, 2010. There have been several total eclipses of the moon in the last decade, but this is the first time in centuries one has occurred on the winter solstice. The last eclipse to fall on the winter solstice occurred in 1638. This shot of the total lunar eclipse was snapped in Brooklyn. An eclipse is not scheduled to fall on this special date again until 2094.

Instead of going black, the moon turned a coppery red when completely blocked from the sun's rays by the Earth, the result of sunlight bouncing off the atmosphere. Pictured here, this lunar eclipse in 2000 lasted for a record-setting 2 hours.

Leading up the lunar eclipse on the winter solstice, NASA documents the first lunar transit of the new moon. The moon created a partial eclipse of the sun in October.

Baby pictures are usually adorable, but this one's out of this world - literally. Astronomers have captured an image of what they believe to be a newly formed black hole, which resulted from a star that went supernova in 1979. Black holes are warped regions in space where it is so dense that nothing, not even light itself, can escape. 'If our interpretation is correct, this is the nearest example where the birth of a black hole has been observed,' said Daniel Patnaude, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who led the study.

Launched in February 2010 from Cape Canaveral, the observatory has spent the past two months moving into a geosynchronous orbit and activating its instruments. As soon as SDO's telescope doors opened, the spacecraft began beaming back scenes so beautiful and puzzlingly complex that even seasoned observers were stunned.

Captured by NASA's Hubble telescope, this image shows a pillar of star birth, three light-years high, depicting how scorching radiation and fast winds from from super-hot newborn stars in the nebula are shaping and compressing the pillar, causing new stars to form within it. The image celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around the Earth. The colors correspond to the glow of oxygen (blue),sac longchamp, hydrogen and nitrogen (green), and sulfur (red).

NASA unveiled the first deep space photos taken by Hubble since its billion-dollar repair mission. That work included installing two new cameras, other science instruments and replacing broken parts. And you can see the outta-this-world results. What resembles dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. A dying star that was once about five times the mass of the sun is at the center of this fury. It has ejected its envelope of gases and is now unleashing a stream of ultraviolet radiation that is making the cast-off material glow.

This image shows the top of the 3-light-year-long pillar, bathed in the glow of light from hot, massive stars. Scorching radiation and fast winds (streams of charged particles) from these stars are sculpting the pillar and causing new stars to form within it. (NASA)

This image, captured in January by NASA's Hubble Telescope, has had the online community buzzing. Although it's unique shape and movement suggest it could some otherworldly object, scientists have more earthly suggestions. David Jewitt of UCLA believes it is merely the result of two asteroids colliding.

The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced. The thin array of ice and dust particles lies at the far reaches of the Saturnian system and its orbit is tilted 27 degrees from the planet's main ring plane, the laboratory said. The bulk of the ring material starts about 3.7 million miles from the planet and extends outward about another 7.4 million miles. The newly found ring is so huge it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it, JPL said.

A clash among members of a famous galaxy quintet reveals an assortment of stars across a wide color range, from young, blue stars to aging, red stars. This portrait of Stephan’s Quintet, also known as Hickson Compact Group 92, was taken by the new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) (NASA).

These images reveal the distribution of dark matter in the supercluster Abell 901/902, composed of hundreds of galaxies.

The Hubble Space Telescope revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. This image of gravitational lens system SDSSJ0946+1006 shows what is called a double "Einstein ring." The double-ring pattern is caused by the complex bending of light from two distant galaxies strung directly behind a foreground massive galaxy, like three beads on a string. The foreground galaxy is 3 billion light-years away, the inner ring and outer ring are comprised of multiple images of two galaxies at a distance of 6 and approximately 11 billion light-years. The odds of seeing such a special alignment are estimated to be 1 in 10,000. The right panel is a zoom onto the lens showing two concentric partial ring-like structures after subtracting the glare of the central, foreground galaxy.

These near-infrared images show the wing- shaped dust disk surrounding the young,air jordan pas cher, nearby star HD 61005. Astronomers have dubbed the star system "The Moth" because the dust disk resembles the wings of the flying insect. The Moth's wingspan extends about 22 billion miles from the star. HD 61005 is about 100 million years old.

This is a composite image of Jupiter storms. The background image is from Hubble Space Telescope and shows the turbulent pattern generated by the two plumes on May 11, 2007 (upper left part of Jupiter). The two bright plumes detach in the superimposed small infrared image obtained at the NASA-IRTF facility a month before, on April 5, 2007. Detailed analysis of two continent-sized storms that erupted in Jupiter's atmosphere in March 2007 shows that Jupiter's internal heat plays a significant role in generating atmospheric disturbances. Understanding this outbreak could be the key to unlock the mysteries buried in the deep Jovian atmosphere, astronomers say.

This image of the elliptical galaxy NGC 1132 combines an image from obtained in 2004 with images made in 2005 and 2006. The blue/purple in the image is the X-ray glow from hot, diffuse gas. The giant foreground galaxy, numerous dwarf galaxies in its neighborhood, and many much more distant galaxies in the background are seen in visible light. NGC 1132 is located approximately 318 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus, the River.

NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," uncovered what may be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies, Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 HST ACS WFCH,sac longchamp pas cher, ever seen in the middle of the cosmic "dark ages," just 700 million years after the beginning of our universe.

Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of previously unseen structures. The object shown above, called NGC 2371, is a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a Sun-like star. The remnant star visible at the center of NGC 2371 is the super-hot core of the former red giant,jordan, now stripped of its outer layers. Its surface temperature is a scorching 240,000 degrees Fahrenheit. NGC 2371 lies about 4,300 light-years away in the constellation Gemini.

Hubble made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough was an important step in eventually identifying signs of life on a planet outside our solar system,polo ralph lauren pas cher. This illustration depicts the extrasolar planet HD 189733b with its parent star peeking above its top edge.

This image shows the core of the spectacular globular cluster Omega Centauri, which glitters with the combined light of 2 million stars. The entire cluster contains 10 million stars, and is among the biggest and most massive of some 200 globular clusters orbiting the Milky Way Galaxy. Omega Centauri lies 17,000 light-years from Earth. In April, astronomers reported on the possible detection of an intermediate-mass black hole in the core of Omega Centauri.
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