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Eclipse over Idaho

Lovely picture! We have a whole gallery and I love this one too:

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Photograph: ISS/NASA

One of the fascinating shots in our monthly gallery of images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites:

The city of Shanghai (right) sits along the delta banks of the Yangtze river along the eastern coast of China. It is the world’s most populous city (the 2010 census counted 23 million people, including “unregistered” residents). With so many humans, the city is a tremendous sight at night. The bright lights of the city centre and the distinctive new skyscrapers that form the skyline along the Pudong district (the eastern shore of the Huangpu river, a tributary of the Yangtze that cuts through the centre of Shanghai) make for spectacular night viewing both on the ground and from space. On the left is Suzhou located 120km from Shanghai

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A long-exposure shot of the night sky above Colorado.  (Photo: Mike Berenson / Caters News via The Telegraph)

Stunning!

Emperor penguins become first creatures to be counted from space

The first census of an entire species using satellite images reveals double the number of the birds, meaning the impact of climate change can be monitored far more accurately

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Photograph: NASA

This image shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 to December 2007. See more satellite images of the earth in our gallery.

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On march 7, Dutch astronaut André Kupiers took this picture from the ISS, showing the 50 kilometers wide rock formation called Eye of Africa. The structure sits in Mauritania, at the Sahara desert, and can only be seen from space.

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So perdy…

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Photograph: T. Preibisch/ESO

From our gallery of space images captured this month:

This panorama of the Carina Nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies, was taken in infrared light using the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial landscape of gas, dust and young stars, have emerged