This Week's Ten Best Space Photos
A lot can happen during a week, and space isn't exempt from this rule. Here are the most interesting photos from space that were taken over the past week. Have a look at these mechanical GIFs for some more interesting brainfood.
This article originally appeared on Space.
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A new Jovian cyclone - the size of Texas - joins the six cyclones that sit at Jupiter's south pole.
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Green algae blooms in the Baltic Sea as seen from the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket after landing successfully to Port Canaveral, Florida after launching a Dragon cargo ship to the International Space Station.
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An image of a swirling galaxy that goes by the name of NGC 3175, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3.
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This is a photo of a star forming region (called Gum 20) about 2,300 light years away from Earth - the dark regions of the photo are the richest with star formation.
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A robotic arm attached to the International Space Station to grab the incoming Dragon cargo resupply ship, which carried supplies for science experiments that the astronauts aboard the ISS would carry out.
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Boeing's first Starliner capsule covered in plastic, waiting to undertake it's first flight,
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Astronauts Luca Parmitano (in foreground) and Drew Morgan performing repairs on the International Space Station's cosmic ray detector during a space walk.
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A bird's eye view of the smoke plumes from the deadly eruption of a volcano in New Zealand, three days after the volcano erupted.
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Sixteen participants of Project PoSSUM (Polar Suborbital Science in the Upper Mesosphere) - a non-profit astronautics research and education program.
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