《每日邮报》2013年度太空照片评选结果出炉

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如同美国人《大西洋月刊》痴迷于评选年度哈勃天文照片一样，对天文科学深度痴迷的英国人，同样也有评选年度宇宙照片的爱好。2013年度太空最震撼人心的照片于2013年12月26日新鲜出炉。
担任此次评选的嘉宾是前国际空间站指挥官加拿大籍宇航员Chris Hadfield，他已经于今年6月正式向加拿大空间局递交辞呈。现年53岁的Hadfield在国际空间站工作了35个年头，是世界最资深的宇航员之一，由其担任嘉宾，非常恰当和适合。
关于2012年度的照片，有兴趣者可以参阅http://www.astronomy.com.cn/bbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=256640
Gazing into the sky on a clear night is a favorite pastime of many.
And a collection of dazzling photographs released this year by NASA makes it easy to see why.The stunning images, primarily captured by the agency's Hubble Space Telescope, show swirling palettes of colored gas, dust and countless stars as they sparkle in space.
Many of the visually spectacular formations are the result of cosmic collisions - where a smaller galaxy plunges right through the heart of a larger one, shooting out the other side.
As the traveling galaxy passes through the center of its bigger neighbor, it sets up gravitational ripples that disrupt red and blue clouds of gas and dust and trigger the formation of new stars.
凝视星空，是很多人最喜爱的一件事。
一年来，全球各国的太空探测器拍摄了众多震撼的宇宙图片，英国《每日邮报》12月26日刊发了2013年度的最佳照片。

                               
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This captivating image of the Orion nebula reveals an  area of our galaxy as a bustling neighbourhood of recently formed stars, hot gas  and dark dust. The nebula is visible to the unaided eye as a small fuzzy patch  in the constellation of Orion
著名的猎户座大星云细节

                               
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Appearing like a column of smoke rising from the  horizon, a dark lane of dust marks the plane of the Milky Way in this  photograph. This dust plays a vital role in the life story of our galaxy. Formed  from the ashes of dead and dying stars, the dust clouds are also the regions in  which new stars will form
银河与人

                               
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Up until this year, images taken of Saturn's hexagonal  storm have been in infrared wavelengths, showing false-colour shades of red,  orange and green. In October, Cassini, which has been orbiting the planet for  over nine years, captured the northern hexagon in its true, incredible  colours

                               
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Mark Gee's image of the Milky Way came first in the  Earth and Space Category in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards. The  shot shows central regions of the Milky Way Galaxy - over 26,000 light years  away - appearing as a tangle of dust and stars, lit up by a lighthouse on the  Cape Palliser, New Zealand, shining out to sea

                               
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The sun may be 93 million miles away from Earth, but  that didn't stopped amateur astronomer Ralph Smith capturing these stunning  close-ups from his garden earlier this year. Shown here is a close up of the sun  showing a solar prominence on its

                               
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The Golden Gate Bridge is visible from space in this  incredible shot of San Francisco Bay taken by astronaut Chris Hadfield. In an  exclusive interview with the MailOnline, the Canadian astronaut revealed that he  took over 40,000 photos during his five month stint on the ISS
太空中看到的旧金山金门大桥

                               
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While this picture was taken in 2012, it went viral this  year as the greatest selfie of all time. Aki Hoshide took the image at the  International Space Station

                               
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This image from the European Space Agency's Herschel  Space Observatory shows the cloud associated with the Rosette Nebula, a stellar  nursery about 5,000 light-years from Earth in the Monoceros, or Unicorn,  constellation
蔷薇星云(Rosette Nebula）局部

                               
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Black-sand dunes on the floor of Mars' crater have been  formed from cooled lava rock. This is one of the first sand dune fields ever  recognised on Mars. In winter, these dunes are covered by frost and CO2  ice
火星表面

                               
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Ivan Eder, from Hungary, took this wonderful shot of M81  and M82 galaxies - twelve million light years from Earth. Most of the emissioM81n  at infrared wavelengths originates from interstellar dust. This dust is found  primarily within the galaxy's spiral arms
著名的M81和M82

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This image of Mars' 'Grand Canyon', taken by  ESA's Mars Express, captured the imagination of space enthusiasts in 2013. The  deep valley, named Hebes Chasma, is a strange 315 km scar that sits almost right  in the middle of the Martian equator on the northern edge of the Valles  Marineris canyon
火星大峡谷

                               
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This image was taken from the International Space  Station 200 miles above Earth. It reveals a mass of storm clouds churning over  the Atlantic Ocean near Brazil and the Equator. A Russian spacecraft, docked to  the orbiting outpost, partially covers a small patch of sunlight on the ocean  waters in a break in the clouds
距离地球200公里拍摄，霞光万道的感觉

                               
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This morning, over Africa, my breath was taken away',  tweeted Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield when he shared this photo on Twitter.  Hadfield claims he never got tired of looking at Earth while on the ISS
太空站上看地球，真正的云蒸霞蔚，气象万千

                               
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The sun fired off its strongest solar flare of the year  this week causing a wide-area blackout of high frequency signal. Nasa's Solar  Dynamics Observatory captured this image of an X3.3-class solar flare that  peaked at 5:12 pm EST (10:12 pm GMT) on Tuesday. The long streak of light is  likely due to solar protons saturating the imager

                               
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Since 2006, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been  charting the red planet's terrain. This image shows defrosting of the crests of  'Inca City'. This is the informal name given to a set of intersecting ridges  that are located among the layered materials of the south polar region of Mars.  Their origin has never been understood
由于外表类似古代地球文明的石墙，此地形被封为  "印加古城 "  ，这些只是一个更大圆形图案的部分而已，意味著起因可能与陨石撞击有关。

                               
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A striking image of two galaxies colliding, taken with  the Nasa Hubble Space Telescope, revealed what looked like the profile of a  celestial bird, hovering protectively over an egg. Both are fully certified  galaxies which can be found in the constellation Hydra, 326 million light years  away
著名的蜂鸟星云。两个星云即将相撞

                               
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A German photographer, Michael Najjar, has created this  image to show just how serious a problem space debris has become. Based on a  data archive, each miniature sphere in the image represents an existing object  orbiting in space. Overall, it is estimated that there are as many as 370,000  pieces of space junk floating in Earth's
地球太空垃圾想象图

                               
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This image shows the great salt desert in Iran. Central  in the desert lies the Kavir Buzurg (or Great Marsh), and in the west, a vast  salt lake called Darya-ye Namak contains large salt plates in a mosaic-like  shape
伊朗的沙漠与大盐湖

                               
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In the early hours of Nov. 27, 2013, Comet ISON entered  the field of view of the European Space Agency/Nasa Solar and Heliospheric  Observatory. In this picture, called a coronagraph, the bright light of the sun  itself is blocked so the structures around it are visible. The comet is seen in  the lower right
掠日彗星Comet ISON

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The picture takes in 404,880 miles across Saturn and its  inner ring system, including its rings out of the E ring, which is the planet's  outer-most ring
这幅包括土星环的土星图，跨域达到40万英里

                               
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The professional mosaic forms part of Cassini¿s ¿Wave at  Saturn¿ campaign, which on July 19, encouraged people to find Saturn in their  part of the sky and wave at it, sharing pictures over the internet. This fun  collage includes about 1,600 images submitted by members of the public as part  of the campaign

                               
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The image, taken on September 8, shows no hurricanes,  cyclones, or tropical storms in the Atlantic, Pacific, or Indian Ocean basin. A  total of 14 polar satellite images, also known as swaths, were taken at midday  and stitched together to create the stunning view
肆虐地球风暴集合

                               
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This image from Hubble shows the Red Rectangle Nebula.   At the nebula's centre is an binary star system that powers the nebula but does  not, as yet, explain its unusual colours. The shape of the Red Rectangle is  likely due to a thick dust which pinches the otherwise spherical outflow into  tip-touching cone shapes
红矩形星云，是邻近麒麟座的一个原行星云，因为它是红色，形状又是矩形，因此得到这个名字。他也被称为HD 44179，是在1973年的一次称为”Hi star”的AFCRL天空红外线调查的火箭飞行过程中发现的，而在这个星云中心的联星系统在1915年就已经被Robert Grant Aitken发现

这图片，无话可说！就一个字表达：真牛叉叉{:soso_e179:}{:soso_e179:}

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幻化无穷。

美不胜收

非常壮观，

有没有地球和月球一起出现的照片呀