This is some of the best images of Space taken during 2013, and i will link the full article at the bottom, so you can see more pictures. This is a news topic and Hilton said it would be fine to post.


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Canadian astronaut and International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield's zero-g version of David Bowie's Space Oddity was one of the most memorable news events of the year. The "first music video in space" went viral when it was released on to the web in May 2013

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In 2013, Nasa celebrated a year of discoveries by the Curiosity rover on the Red Planet. The robot has found evidence for the presence, billions of years ago, of a lake with pH neutral waters that had the potential to support microbial life

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The Horsehead Nebula is the subject of what may be the Hubble telescope's most famous picture. This newer view of the nebula shows it at infrared wavelengths. While it appears shadowy in optical light but is transparent and ethereal in the infrared

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The spinning vortex at Saturn's north pole resembles a red rose in this picture from Nasa's Cassini spacecraft. Scientists estimate that the eye of this staggering storm measures some 2,000km (1,250 miles) across, with clouds moving as fast as 150m/s

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In March, scientists working on the Planck mission released this view of the Cosmic Microwave Background, a snapshot of the oldest light in the Universe, imprinted on the sky when the cosmos was just 380,000 years old

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Typhoon Haiyan is shown approaching the Philippines in November 2013, where it caused devastation and the loss of thousands of lives. This composite image incorporates data from Japan's MTSat 2 and Eumetsat's Meteosat-7 spacecraft

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There's a psychedelic quality to this 3D visualisation of cold carbon monoxide gas in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 - also known as the Sculptor Galaxy. The colours represent the intensity of the emission detected by the ALMA telescope array in Chile, with pink being the strongest and red the weakest

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Between 12 and 14 May, the Sun unleashed four intense bursts of radiation, or flares. These X-class flares are the most intense type known to be released by the Sun. This picture from Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the first of these on 12 May.

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