The Starman falls to earth. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, whose David Bowie cover captured the imagination of Earthlings yesterday, landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan.
Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/AFP/Getty Images
Deforestation, fires, flooding and melting ice are among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month
A handout picture released by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a composite of 25 separate images of the sun spanning the period of April 16, 2012, to April 15, 2013 to create a snapshot of the most active zones on the sun’s surface.
From picture desk: live, our team’s pick of the most newsworthy images of the day.
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s photograph reveals Berlin’s ongoing struggle for reunification. The snap, taken from the International Space Station, shows a divide between the whiter lights of former west Berlin and the yellower lights of the east.
Photograph: Nasa
The Orion nebula is featured in this sweeping image from Nasa’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The constellation of Orion is prominent in the evening sky throughout the world from about December through to April of each year. See more images from a month in space
Photograph: UCLA/JPL-Caltech/Nasa
The planet Earth is black! Nasa lights up the world at night
Space agency satellite uses hi-res visible and infrared imager powerful enough to spot a single ship’s light to produce ‘black marble’ cloud-free night-time pictures - see them in this stunning blog.
Photo: NASA EO/Rex Features
Was there life on Mars?
NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, dispatched to learn if the most Earth-like planet in the solar system was suitable for microbial life, has found clear evidence its landing site was once awash in water, a key ingredient for life, scientists said.
Photograph: Nasa/Reuters
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Well done to rvlvr, futuristforesight and others - our pic the other day was the tyre tracks of the Curiosity rover on Mars photographed by the Nasa satellite.
(It was not aliens, sorry, youessay and stenmeister)
Photograph: Nasa/AP
Nasa is showing off the first high-resolution colour picture sent back by the Mars rover Curiosity, detailing the mountain where scientists plan to focus their search for the chemical ingredients of life.
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