The best NASA images from 2012
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March 26, 2012: Hubble Space Telescope captures the spiral galaxy NGC 2683, seen almost edge-on (Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA)
August 31, 2012: A region to the northwest of Mercury's crater Magritte – the shadowing helps define the "Mickey Mouse" resemblance, created by the accumulation of craters (Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington)
June 13, 2012: Polar Mesospheric Clouds in the Northern Hemisphere (Image: NASA ISS - Digital Camera)
May 2, 2012: This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole (Image: NASA; S. Gezari, The Johns Hopkins University; and J. Guillochon, University of California, Santa Cruz)
June 5-6, 2012: Ultra-high definition view the transit of Venus across the face of the sun (Image: NASA/SDO, AIA)
August 28, 2012: Nighttime view of Tropical Storm Isaac and the cities near the Gulf Coast of the United States (Image: NASA Earth Observatory by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS Day Night Band data)
March 27, 2012: NASA launches five rockets in five minutes (Image: NASA/Wallops)
December 22, 2012: 21 December was not the end of the world and NASA's SDO satellite captured this image of the SUN on 12-22-12 at 00:14 (Image: NASA/NOAA GOES Project)
December 18, 2012: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographed a festive-looking nearby planetary nebula called NGC 5189 (image: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
December 14, 2012: The Sun blows a robust prominence out into space (Image: NASA/GSFC/STEREO)
October 28, 2012: NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of the massive Hurricane Sandy as the storm intensifies (Image: NASA GOES Project)
February 24, 2012: NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of the snowfall regions in Italy (Image: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team)
May 31, 2012: This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy (Image: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger)
April 18 - October 23, 2012: This new image of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite (Image: Suomi NPP - VIIRS)
January 11, 2012: Cloud streets and vortices off the Aleutian Islands (Image: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team)
January 11, 2012: Hubble Space Telescope solved the mystery of the type of star, or so-called progenitor, that caused a supernova in a nearby galaxy (Image: : NASA, ESA, CXC, SAO, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and J. Hughes (Rutgers University))
February 24, 2012: NASA's Hubble Telescope captured an image of Eta Carinae. The field of view is approximately 30 arcseconds across (Image: ESA/NASA)
August 31, 2012: A solar filament erupts out into space (Image: NASA/GSFC/SDO)
High-resolution self-portrait by Curiosity Rover arm camera, used by NASA engineers to document the rover’s condition (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems)
Article Summary
2012 saw a number of significant milestones in star gazing and space exploration. NASA's Mars rover Curiosity touched down on the Red Planet in spectacular fashion, super-Earth's were discovered, the Moon pounded and Voyager 1 edged ever closer towards interstellar space. We also saw more of the universe around us than ever before and as usual, NASA treated us to an array of incredible images.
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